Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autistic community

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep and a suggestion to merge with Autistic culture. Joyous 01:55, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Autistic community
Merge with and redirect to Autism and/or Asperger's syndrome. Neutralitytalk 04:32, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)

Christina`rain 05:12, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * No, there is an Autistic community. The Autism article as it stands is 46KB, this makes a good article by itself. It definitely needs cleanup though. Maybe we could ask at the boards they link to for assistance? - Ta bu shi da yu 04:56, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * This subject is more than notable enough on its own to merit an article. I agree with Ta bu about being able to search for help to make this article better, and I think that's a better solution than merging it with an already huge article. Yelyos 05:08, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
 * Agrees and believes that every group deserves recognition of their own communities
 * Keep The community itself has gotten press lately. It's notable.  The situation is very comparable to Deaf culture, and this article will probably grow to be as valuable as that one.
 * Strong keep. Samaritan 07:52, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is no reason to delete this, and if it's a merge/redirect you want instead, there's no reason to bring it to Votes for Deletion. I think it's best left as a separate article though, as autism is pretty lengthy as it is. &#1051;&#1080;&#1074;&#1072;&#1081; | &#x263a; 08:05, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep although the article would need significant expansion - Skysmith 09:41, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - It's good. --Is Mise le Méas, Irishpunktom 10:17, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, just a collection of bulletin boards and chat rooms. Not notable. --fvw *  13:25, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)
 * I think that the article being only a collection of chatrooms and bulletin boards is indicator that an article needs to be expanded, not deleted. Q0 00:31, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Due to the size of Autism merging back isn't an option. And the community is indeed notable. Keep and cleanup and see if it can be cleaned up in, say, a month. Mgm|(talk) 14:17, 2004 Dec 31 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. Szyslak 18:55, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, it's helpful. Wyss 23:19, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep for every reason listed above. GRider\talk 23:30, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, needs to be cleaned up though. Megan1967 00:50, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with extreme prejudice and expand. Ropers 03:16, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Autism. Cleduc 07:21, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * There is an article autistic culture on wikipedia. I wonder if it would be a good idea to merge the two articles? Q0 21:09, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep The autistic community is real and valid, and the statement from the autistic community about minority status is important. AmyNelson 17:53, 8 Jan 2005
 * definately keep - perhaps could be merged with autistic culture, but this should not be dismissed. the autistic community is still growing both online and offline and this is something that should be recogonised 18:00 8th Jan 2005
 * Keep Why is it many people in this Wiki community seem to have something against Aspies and the people that try to represent us? WelshAspie 22:45, 10 Jan 2005
 * Keep Or merge with autistic culture. There is an active, vibrant autistic culture and community on the Internet and to some extent offline as well; it deserves recognition. Bonnie Ventura 20:35, 11 Jan 2005

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