Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinosaurs of Africa


 * 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   speedy keep. withdrawn by nom DGG (talk) 22:43, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Dinosaurs of Africa

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Dinosaurs of Africa is an abandoned and incomplete page. Since there are 67 dinosaur genera listed in Category:Dinosaurs of Africa, I think it makes more sense at this point to let the category do the work. J. Spencer (talk) 02:18, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  — Lady  of  Shalott  02:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.  — Lady  of  Shalott  02:53, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but rename to List of African dinosaurs. Per longstanding precedent, lists and categories can and often should coexist.  The reasoning is that while editors tend to be able to use categories proficiently, the end-users of the encyclopaedia usually don't even know they exist, so lists are a valuable way of finding and sorting information for them. The fact that the article is abandoned and incomplete is no reason for deletion.  See sofixit.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  08:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: I have very substantially revised this article since the nomination. Nominator's comments were accurate at the time he made them.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  09:34, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Easy Keep with S Marshall's tremendous improvements. Rename per S Marshall's suggestion. Lady  of  Shalott  13:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per S Marshall. Edward321 (talk) 14:34, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: With LadyofShalott's endorsement of the idea, I've moved this article to List of African dinosaurs.— S Marshall  Talk / Cont  15:47, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Withdraw nomination: I still think that the category works better for this, but I'm cool with keeping it if you see a use for it. J. Spencer (talk) 22:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


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