Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dunfermline and West Fife Demographics


 * 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   delete. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:29, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Dunfermline and West Fife Demographics

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Fails WP:GNG as OR, the article concerning an arbitrary grouping of places, now confusingly similar in name to a parliamentary constituency but not apparently conforming to this or an any other entity supported by documentary evidence. Cited sub-unit stats are arbitrarily totaled to give a figure for an arbitrary greater unit. Mutt Lunker (talk) 09:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions.  —Mais oui! (talk) 10:03, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * This article is relevant and I believe should be included, the article is cited well by official published statistics from the Scotland Census 2011. The reason for Dunfermline in the title is to help people find the article.  I think nominating the article for deletion is a bit drastic, and any issue you have could be resolved on the talk page.  This article brings useful information to Wikipedia.  --Aaron McHale (talk) 13:51, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment. The statistics for individual settlements are per the citation but the grouping of those settlements listed as being one entity and the rationale for totaling these figures is not supported by citation. This article was clearly not intended to be in regard to the similarly named constituency, not least because its original name (Dunfermline Conurbation and West Fife Demographics) did not correspond. It also includes significant settlements which are outside of the constituency. Mutt Lunker (talk) 14:55, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * A solution for the way forward might be to add this article to the West Fife article, and make this a redirect. I did not intend to reference the constituency Dunfermline and West Fife, I intended to reference Dunfermline and the geographical area West Fife.  --Aaron McHale (talk) 16:04, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Comment. West Fife is not not an article as such but a disambiguation page to two existing articles. If you believe it warrants an article in its own right this would have to make reference to the two existing articles, plus any additional material if you think there is some which falls outside the scope of these existing ones. This additonal material must be based on reliable sources however and not your own construct as to what you personally reckon to be West Fife. There would only be any point making "Dunfermline and West Fife Demographics" a re-direct if it was a reasonable belief that someone would search for that exact term. I don't think this is at all likely, in which case this article ought to simply be deleted. If you now agree that this article should be deleted please post below to indicate this (further discussion about West Fife should take place elsewhere). Mutt Lunker (talk) 16:41, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - Inclined to delete, per WP:SYNTH. --Mais oui! (talk) 17:28, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Please see and contribute to the discussion started on Talk:West Fife before any action is taken. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaronmchale (talk • contribs) 17:34, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - The current article should be deleted per WP:SYNTH. The stats themselves are not creative enough that history is needed for attribution if they were to me merged elsewhere; so the deletion of this article has no bearing on discussions for placement of demographic statistics in another article. -- Whpq (talk) 15:47, 4 July 2011 (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.