Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cuba under Fidel Castro


 * 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 keep. (non-admin closure)  Ya  sh  !   17:34, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

Cuba under Fidel Castro

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Repeats information from main Fidel Castro article without adding anything substantive. Scaleshombre (talk) 17:32, 24 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment This article was created as a merger of two related articles, "Presidency of Fidel Castro" and "Premiership of Fidel Castro." I'd nominated both as AfD for the same reason -- they repeated info (whole sections, in fact) from Fidel Castro without adding anything of significance. The new article compounds this problem by simply taking a larger chunk of Fidel Castro and presenting it as a "new" article. Scaleshombre (talk) 17:39, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep: Forgive me in engaging in a little WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, but it is perfectly standard practice on Wikipedia to have articles such as this one. For instance, we have both Government of Vladimir Lenin and Vladimir Lenin, and Presidency of Barack Obama and Barack Obama. At present it may be that the Fidel Castro and Cuba under Fidel Castro articles largely duplicate, but there is much potential for the latter to be expanded, while the former may indeed get trimmed back as it undergoes PR and eventually FAC in the coming months and years. Retaining both therefore carries great value. Midnightblueowl (talk) 17:37, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - This article is relevant, informative, and needs its own article space as the current subject title. Scorpion293 (talk) 20:55, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep per Midnightblueowl. The two are rather separate topics and while the coverage is largely duplicated, they can easily and eventually be expanded in different directions to greatly improve our coverage. Essentially, it seems like a WP:SPINOFF and a promising one at that. If they overlap too much for your liking, that's a reason to improve the article, not delete it, especially since the potential for the articles is significantly different. I don't see any real reason to delete, and a pretty good reason to keep. Wugapodes [thɔk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɻɪbz] 23:10, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Speedy procedural close per the recently closed discussions at Articles for deletion/Premiership of Fidel Castro and Articles for deletion/Presidency of Fidel Castro that resulted in this article, which is a direct renomination with the same rationale of an article with the same page history. If the nominator dislikes the outcome of the prior AfDs, they should go to WP:DRV. -- 65.94.168.229 (talk) 03:48, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Ping the closers of the prior two AfD requests -- 65.94.168.229 (talk) 03:50, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: As a general suggestion- if there is consensus that there is currently too much overlap, given the above-mentioned (and, I think, fairly obvious) potential for divergence, perhaps the current article could be userfied or moved to the draft space so that it can be moved back to the mainspace when development moves it further away from the other article. Josh Milburn (talk) 14:49, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - Merely not liking the result of past AFD decisions isn't a justification for making more AFDs. CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 08:40, 26 December 2016 (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.