Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graph of Italian general elections


 * 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   BOLDly merged to Elections in Italy. Stifle (talk) 15:15, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Graph of Italian general elections

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This article is merely a map of election results quickly copied and pasted from an Italian Wikipedia article. It makes obviously no sense to leave it as a stand-alone article, and personally I think it makes no sense as well to merge it into another article, unless it is translated into English and uploaded to Commons into a proper format, such as SVG for instance. A WP:PROD was contested under the claim it is an imagemap, however there's no imagemap at all who stands as an article of its own, they are all inserted into a more significant content (see Category:Wikipedia imagemaps), and, again, this content can be more easily covered as a SVG drawing. Angelo (talk) 07:49, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I seem excessively blunt here, but this simply isn't an issue for AfD, it's an issue for editing. I grow quite tired of people nominating pages for deletion on the basis of having easily repairable flaws, it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what a wiki is. --erachima talk 08:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:SOFIXIT. There are a large number of ways that graph could be used to serve our readers. Category:General elections in Italy currently lacks a main article, for instance, so you could create Italian general elections or List of Italian general elections and include the imagemap there. If it needs translated, or its format converted, or uploading to commons, then do that, or ask someone. It probably would have taken less time to move the page to the list title and write it a stub intro than you spent filing this AfD on it, and certainly less time than you've spent attempting to prod the thing.
 * We're talking about the notability of an article with just that graph. Do you think that graph is notable enough to have its own article? I think no. These contents can be easily recovered and merged into another article in the future, that's not the issue actually. --Angelo (talk) 08:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Of course the graph isn't a notable subject, but it's a significantly useful collection of data, and bringing it up for deletion is the wrong way to go about this. --erachima talk 09:14, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: I've merged the graph into Elections in Italy and redirected the page. Since the remaining complaints raised (the image being untranslated) fall outside the purview of AfD, I think we can consider this resolved. --erachima talk 09:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)


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