Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/COVID-19 pandemic in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was no consensus. From a nosecount point of view, opinion is more or less evenly split. I'm having trouble finding good policy-based arguments on either side. The gist here is that people mostly agree this information should be included in the encyclopedia, but disagree on whether it belongs here in a stand-alone article, or merged into any of several suggested higher-level articles. Whether to merge or not is fundamentally a content issue which should be resolved by editors building consensus on the talk pages. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:02, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 pandemic in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is not a nation. There is only 1 confirmed case, and only a few sentences, not information for having a stand alone article. If this is the standard, we can have an article of every city in the United States and world wide. COVID-19 is not even mentioned in the article Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, so not major for the base. All content can easily be merged into Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and/or COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba. SportsOlympic (talk) 11:28, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cuba-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 12:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 12:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 12:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of COVID-19-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 12:08, 15 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete/merge We do not need separate articles for single cases in every square mile on earth, easily covered in the above articles without listing every minor tidbit of info in the news as it has now. Reywas92Talk 08:03, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep most (if not all) subnational jurisdictions in the united states have their own article. while the reported case count in low, article is notable due to the DoD not providing updates and the shut down of travel between the base for legal services. Epluribusunumyall (talk) 09:27, 23 May 2020 (UTC) (wrote this a while ago, but forgot to sign it, my bad)


 * Comment The base not being a nation is not good reason for deletion.★Trekker (talk) 13:09, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree, but the reason for nominating is not only that it’s not a country. SportsOlympic (talk) 20:14, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment, "most (if not all) subnational jurisdictions in the united states have their own article.", look forward to other jurisdications getting similar treatment, i dont think this means all subnational jurisdictions (Part-I.pdf around 1/2mill worldwide) but at the state/regional level of each country it would still number in the thousands. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:52, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment, i know we're talking about USpedia, oops Wikipedia here, but do we really need a separate covid article for Guantanamo naval base (and not even the province, just the base)?, we already have an imbalance in these covid articles ie. a separate article for each US state, and each province in Canada, compare that to some other countries; Australia has 16 states/territories - COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, China has 34 provincial level admin divisions -5 separate articles, France has 13 metropolitan/mainland regions - COVID-19 pandemic in France, India has 36 states/union territories -29 separate articles, New Zealand has 6 provinces - COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand, Sweden has 25 provinces - COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden. Coolabahapple (talk) 16:59, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment It's worth pointing out that Canada and the United States are federalized states and much of the healthcare response has been delegate to either provinces or states, and thats partially why they may deserve their own articles. New Zealand and France are unitary states on the other hand their response has been led by their federal governments. Regions in france don't have legislative authority over health policy, unlike provinces/states in canada and the us. This just ins't a good comparision because even though all states have subnational jurisdiction, they don't all have the same legislative or political authority to deal with the covid-19 pandemic. Epluribusunumyall (talk) 09:27, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge to a more general article on Covid-19 in US controlled military locations. This is 1 case, it is not a sustained outbreak.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:50, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep there are many news stories about the impact of COVID-19 on Guantanamo naval base so I vote to keep this article and can help improve it Serenewilliams (talk) 17:10, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete As stated above, this should be merged into a bigger article (the one for the Base, or the one for COVID). --Tinhog (talk) 03:18, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 01:44, 23 May 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per nom. Now get into your orange jumpsuits and begin the water-boarding.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:51, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and Redirect I don't think we need a separate article like this and better to merge it with COVID-19 pandemic in the United States as per nom. Abishe (talk) 20:46, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per Serenewilliams. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 12:14, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   12:00, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep because there is currently no article about COVID on US military bases, only one on the impact on militaries in general. It might be merged without another discussion, if and when editors can put together such an article. NotBartEhrman (talk) 02:02, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Unhelpful, indiscriminate article. I claim that many of these articles lack content. I've seen other of the, before, but this one is simply about a military base, which isn't even a community. Koridas (...Puerto Rico for statehood!) 22:03, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep because article COVID-19 pandemic in the United States may be too long to read and navigate comfortably if merged with all cases of US States and Cities, ships, care homes, etc. Notable, because wide presence in american mass media is also about to keep. PoetVeches (talk) 14:48, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment the important info can be written in a few sentences, as all the other information about taken measures is the same as in the US. An option might also be to merge it into COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba as it is located there. And yes, the one or two sentences are of encyclopedic relevance, but might not deserve a stand alone article. SportsOlympic (talk) 08:35, 4 June 2020 (UTC)


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