Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extreme points of Algeria

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - should be merged - SimonP 20:10, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)

Extreme points of Algeria
Assuming that the information here is correct, it should be merged into Algeria and this page deleted. -- SGBailey 20:26, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
 * Extreme merge. Radiant_* 21:22, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. Please see here, here, and here (#11) for why not to "merge and delete". &mdash;Korath (Talk) 22:14, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or keep and please also read the Deletion_policy about minor branches of subjects. Kappa 01:11, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I said it on Talk:Extreme points of Italy (which I haven't had the time to go back to), and I'll say it here. These "extreme points of" articles are articles about the geography of the particular country/continent, and belong in the "Geography of" articles along with all of the other geographical data.  There's nothing special about "extreme point" geographical data that makes them any different to, say, elevation extremes, land boundaries, mean temperatures, or area, all of which are geographical data that are in the geographical article, Geography of Algeria.  It's only in rare cases that "Geography of" articles have themselves grown big enough for their sections to spawn their own break-out articles (e.g. Economic geography of the United Kingdom broken out from the economics section of Geography of the United Kingdom, just as that was broken out of the geography section of United Kingdom).  This is not the case for Geography of Algeria, nor is it the cases for Geography of Italy, Geography of Madagascar, and all of the other "Geography of" articles that are just gasping for the sorts of data that are instead being added to a completely separate parallel set of articles. Merge the whole series to the proper articles. Uncle G 01:30, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
 * Keep, we seem to have these pages for many countries. - SimonP 01:44, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, and pretty much all of the Extreme points of articles are redundant with Geography of .  Radiant_* 08:37, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone dropped a gum wrapper on my neighbor's walk. I guessI better drop one on my own walk, too. For consistency. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:38, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong merge with Geography of Algeria. Binadot 02:33, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with geography of Algeria. Neutralitytalk 06:09, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Geography of Algeria. Megan1967 09:54, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and link from Geography of Algeria, no compelling reason to merge. Makes more sense to keep a series of articles on extreme points by country, rather than just for the odd few nations with larger geography of... articles. Warofdreams 11:01, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Keep I get it - individual pages for the extreme points of Portugal or Britain is ok, but for Algeria it's not? This is an issue of parity - merge every extreme points page into Geo. or leave them. Sdrawkcab 13:46, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)sdrawkcab
 * A wise person suggested "understanding the inconsistent nature of Wikipedia and accepting it as a desirable thing inherent in the processes and values of the project." That's from WP:POINT, which I'm only citing because I what it says about consistency and the Wiki-process. This article, nomination, and discussion are not disruptive. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:38, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Geography of Algeria. There shouldn't be individual pages for the extreme points of any country, it's a trivial piece of straightforward geography that belongs with the rest of the information about that country. Look at what other encyclopedias do. You look up the information on Algeria under A-for-Algeria, you don't need to go taking down volume E for extreme points or P for population or S for surface area. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:38, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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