Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interrail

 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 Keep, but we still have a merge tag on the article. I will merge this with Inter Rail. Since there was absolutely no wish to delete I will keep everything in the article. Once again, I am sorry for nominating this one... Sjakkalle 15:14, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Interrail
This article would probably be great at wikitravel. I have checked the deletion policy, and it says that such articles ought to be listed here. I think there ought to be a Votes to move page but as long as there isn't I will abide by the policy. Anyway, this appears to be a travel guide, and not an encyclopedic article. My vote is transwiki to WikiTravel. Sjakkalle 14:38, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Lots of young Europeans go Interrailing. OK this srticle isn't great but it could be improved, to become encylopedic, with information about the history of interrail, motivations of the founders, reference to interail in popular culture etc. There's definatley more to write about than just a travcel article, whioch would only cover the practicalities of interrailling. Grinner 14:52, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I promise to reconsider in a few days if the article is rewritten. I do not really like seeing fairly good stuff being deleted, and that is why I would like to see this at Wikitravel. Sjakkalle 15:00, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * How many people use Wikitravel compared to Wikipedia? This one isn't anywhere close to being marginal. Keep Wincoote 02:24, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Interrail is not only a pass for travelling or a kind of travel guide, it is a travel culture of the european youth. Interrailing is the word synonimous for traveling by train or doing a trip trought Europe. Like rent a car or using a bus for traveling. I think Interrail is a word wich should be available in wikipedia AND wikitravel. PetevanBoo 15:02, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * OK, how is this: The person who created this article has made a new, encyclopedic one: Inter Rail. I suggest that we a) Transwiki this article to WikiTravel, and (b) move Inter Rail here. How's that? That is kind of like a keep is it not? Sjakkalle 15:08, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Or rename Inter Rail to Interrail like it is spelled right. PetevanBoo 15:35, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Hello again. I have made the following observations. So merge is definitely still my vote, it should be merged into the article titled Inter Rail, "Interrail" being the incorrect spelling should probably be a redirect. I am sorry that I nominated this in the first place, I regret doing so. Of course the title clearly has potential to become encyclopedic. Sjakkalle 16:07, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge them together and keep in wikipedia. Interrail passes are extremely important to European travel, and they get 289,000 google hits.  Kappa 15:48, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Wikitravel uses the Creative Commons license, so cannot take GFDL material. (It's also not associated with us, so far as I'm aware.) &mdash;Korath (Talk) 16:18, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge Inter Rail into it. Important for the vacation experience of hundreds of thousands of young Europeans. Martg76 20:39, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * keep --SPUI (talk) 23:09, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. James F. (talk) 17:56, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * So WikiTravel cannot accept articles from wikipedia? Ok then, that eliminates the possibility for transwiki. In that case I change my vote to merge with material from "Inter Rail", which I think may make a fair encyclopedic article. Of course, an outright deletion is not in order. My nomination was because travel guides are not appropriate for Wikipedia and at that time, the first entry on the "Problems that may require deletion" table on the Deletion policy page provided listing on the vfd page as the appropriate remedy. I see now that this has now been changed from "not suitable for Wikipedia" to "no potential to become encyclopedic", and I would not have nominated this if this had been the text at that time. Sjakkalle 09:13, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * According to current policy and precedent there's no reason to move or delete and every reason to keep this article.--Centauri 09:16, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Rename if current spelling is not correct.--Gene_poole 02:20, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, possibly rename. Its a popular travel thing in a place called Europe (did I see that for deletion a few weeks ago? I'm sure it's not notable!) Mark Richards 11:31, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Wikitravel already has an Inter Rail article which is a lot larger than this one.
 * 2) "Inter Rail", and not "Interrail" is the correct spelling.
 * Merge and redirect to Inter Rail - David Gerard 15:20, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

''Merge tags have been slapped on this article (not by me). Can an administrator PLEASE close this debate so that this can be done.?'' Sjakkalle 10:03, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.