Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California


 * 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 of the debate was keep Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California and userfy Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides. BlankVerse can merge the articles as necessary once he's finished with the information-gathering. Ξxtreme Unction |yakkity yak 21:08, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California and Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides
Strangly formatted and strangly coded article, apparently attempting to disambiguate the various meanings of "Eastside" when relating to California. Even stranger is that Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides was also written, and then included into Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California as if it were a template. I'd say delete both, no merge or redirect. --FuriousFreddy 20:34, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Strong keep. Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides was created NOT AS A TEMPLATE, but as a short amount of common text that could be transcluded into the Long Beach, California, Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California, and Eastside, Long Beach, California articles. Both the "traditional" Eastside and gang/rap Eastside articles for Long Beach will be expanded as soon as I find the time to search for accurate information. Especially for the gang/rap article, there is a huge amount of misinformation and just plain nonsense, so it is a difficult task finding verifiable information. Blank Verse 05:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Then userify them until you complete them, find a better name for the Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California, and never tranclude text from one article into two other seperate articles. --FuriousFreddy 13:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * If you can come up with a better name, I'll gladly use it. The facts are that there are two very different Eastside Long Beaches and there needs to be some easy way to differentiate them. The "traditional" Eastside has been called that for at least 60 years. On the other hand, the other Eastside is well-known to almost any rap music fan and is the only Eastside Long Beach that is known outside the LA area. Blank Verse 08:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Once I am sure that the text at Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides is accurate and stable, I will probably substitute it into the three articles and then delete it. There seems to be no reason at all to delete Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California except your dislike of the title. Blank Verse 08:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep Eastside (gang/rap), Long Beach, California merge Long Beach, California/Two Eastsides into the two articles that currently include it, and then either redirect or delete the latter. User:BlankVerse, inclusion of one article-space text into several other articles is generally not done as it's unnecessarily confusing.  For instance, the AFD template currently on it makes both of the others look as if they're up for deletion too, and one of them is not. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 02:48, 3 January 2006 (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.