Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interwiki links (2nd nomination)


 * 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 delete. Spartaz Humbug! 15:41, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

Interwiki links
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Does not pass GNG ThatIPEditor Talk · Contribs 02:11, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 02:19, 3 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Note: This is the MAINSPACE article. Not the HELP page, or the WP space. Adding this because of personal attacks when I nominated another page for deletion, but they thought I was deleting from WP space. ThatIPEditor Talk · Contribs 02:57, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , I have little doubt that this should be deleted, but if you are going to refer to personal attacks in any comment then you should provide diffs. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:49, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , k, uhh, for the personal attack part, see my nomination for the mainspace afd of Arbitration Committee ThatIPEditor Talk · Contribs 20:17, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I see no personal attacks at Articles for deletion/Arbitration Committee and nothing that suggests that anyone did not know that this was a main space article. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:54, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I received a notification from a bot that I had contributed substantially to this article, so might have opinions on its deletion. A lot has changed in the 17 years since my major edit to it!
 * Firstly, for those not hip enough to talk the jargon, I presume "GNG" stands for General notability guideline?
 * Secondly, I agree that this probably doesn't deserve its own article, but I wonder if some content can be salvaged into the main wiki article, which currently doesn't even mention it, and into history of wikis, which has one mention in passing. Although "wiki" has now come to refer simply to a style of software, it was once something more like a movement, and interwiki linking was part of the culture. Even in modern wiki software, the facility for interwiki links is very much present, as a cursory search for the term shows.
 * It occurs to me that it's somewhat the wiki equivalent of the "blogroll", which is covered in the article glossary of blogging, but there is no glossary of wikis, so that doesn't really help. - IMSoP (talk) 22:25, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   19:32, 10 March 2021 (UTC) If the article is going to be deleted, data should be merged into the similar article Help:Interlanguage links or Help:Interwiki_linking. Baptx (talk) 19:09, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Those are not articles, but help pages for this wiki. Is there any content in the article (part of the public-facing English Wikipedia) which should be added to the help pages? I can't see any myself. I must admit that I am disappointed with this edit because I had thought that nobody could possibly confuse an encyclopedia article with an internal help page, but you have demonstrated such confusion here. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:32, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I would have redirected, but that is not a option. ThatIPEditor Talk · Contribs 13:58, 13 March 2021 (UTC)


 * merge suitable content to Wiki (1st choice, but there's questionable utility in merging poorly sourced content) or soft redirect to interwiki, not seeing a standalone article justified here. Eddie891 Talk Work 01:29, 20 March 2021 (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.