Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Awdalland


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The result was redirect to Awdal.  Sandstein  13:03, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Awdalland

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The bulk of the article (demographics section) is identical to that of the "Awdal" page. Moreover, contains poor citations throughout. For example, 1) Citation 1 makes no reference to "Awdalland" and it being a "former region". 2) No citation for the claim that "Awdalland (also spelled Adelland) takes its name from the Adel Sultanate". 3) Citation 4 is unreliable as it links to a Somali news tabloid website. 4)Citation 5 links to a Japanese website irrelevant to the article. 5) Though some sources touch on Awdalland, a Google Books search returns very limited results for "Awdalland", thus may not qualify for notability in the sense of gaining "sufficiently significant attention by the world". Therefore, this article should be deleted due to lack of relevance and unreliable citations. Jacob300 (talk) 11:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Jacob300 (talk) 11:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Jacob300 (talk) 11:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Somalia-related deletion discussions. North America1000 15:20, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Comment: Citation 5, for some reason, points to an archive.org snapshot that took place after the website had changed its content (apparently taken over as an advertisement and/or holding space). An earlier version of the cited source appears here. That said, it's a blog post that probably runs afoul of WP:SPS. But as long as I'm here I'd suggest redirect to Awdal, as opposed to "merge and redirect": I wouldn't suggest merging problematic content elsewhere, and anyway both the separatist movement and the opposition to it are already mentioned there. I did notice that the article's creator was blocked via WP:CU but no mention of the other account(s) with whom they're affiliated. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * P.S. I just found my comment from 2011 at Talk:Awdalland where I suggested this was a POV fork of Awdal. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:53, 9 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete or redirect to Awdal per above. --Kzl55 (talk) 10:13, 13 July 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.