Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecuador buses


 * 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 and Rename Clear consensus to keep with a new name - Bus transport in Ecuador. Mike Cline (talk) 09:08, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Ecuador buses

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This article is WP:ESSAY and pure WP:OR. We do not have CSD reasons for essay articles yet (but see if we should!), so using AFD. This is borderline WP:ADVERT, and it's obvious how-to. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 18:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I hate to say "per nominator", but Timneu covered it all. It's all just a big how-to essay about riding buses with a strong whiff of advertising. No indication of why this is an encyclopedic topic, and the article certainly lacks encyclopedic tone. » scoops “ 5x5  „ 21:46, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep The article was nominated for deletion within 4 minutes of its creation by someone who tells us "I enjoy speedily deleting". He should please understand that AFD is not CSD and that nominations require due diligence so that the normal editing process is not disrupted.  The topic is notable and I have made a start on improving it.  I have knocked it back to a sourced stub so that it may survive the hostile nay-sayers but my impression is that the original content was quite accurate and just needs wikification rather than deletion. Colonel Warden (talk) 08:35, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The original content had a conclusion section and was complete OR, including being written in the second person. I noted that it's possible to have an encyclopedic article on this topic, but that is not what the author intended and that's not how the article was presented. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 11:58, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Another comment... yes, I enjoy speedily tagging nonsense articles, and I get just about all of them right. I would even go as far as to say I got this one right, because the text that appears now is completely different than the original, and the article's title will be different in the end. So in a way, the article was deleted, and a new one was created with the correct title and correct text. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 12:08, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Observing your recent attempt to delete the article about the notable soprano Patricia Brooks, I would go so far as to say that you ought to be blocked for disruption per WP:CIR unless you improve your behaviour. Please see WP:WIHS which explains the matter in more detail. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep. Rename to Bus transport in Ecuador and add a category to Category:Bus transport by country for future expansion.  It would not be difficult to re-write. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 10:33, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I also suggested that renaming to something similar was the right thing to do. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 12:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Change to keep, after rename. The original author wrote an essay (and frankly created the wrong title). The current stub is how an article with this title should have been started. I was not going to put any effort into "saving" the article because I don't know enough about the topic. In its current stubbed-state, there's no reason to delete it. It's only a valid article now because of the editors here who decided to save it. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 12:01, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Rename and keep there has to be sources out there for this... nearly any country's transit system is covered by news and scholars... Arskwad (talk) 18:24, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep and rename I agree on this one. Also, if the article is less than a day old, try to talk to the new creator, instead of just nominating it for deletion.  Be more sensitive to their feelings.   D r e a m Focus  06:42, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

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