Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Italian-Canadian

 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 The result of the debate was keep the rewrite, nomination withdrawn as well. Sjakkalle 09:38, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Italian-Canadian
Delete as dicdef. No potential to become encyclopedic. Something like notable italian-canadians maybe, but not the plain ole' definition. Feco 21:27, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I nominated, fully expecting this to be the typical "I'll create a subsubsubsubsub-stub and expect someone else to flush it out"... since User:Ground Zero had done an excellent re-write, I change to Keep. Feco 22:25, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, like Italian-American. Kappa 21:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete what's next, an article on Trinidadian-Luxembourgians? Uruguayan-Congonese?  We do not need dicdefs for every possible 2-country combination. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  21:37, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten, and keep expanding. I'm still in favour of deleting any stubs that read "Xian-Zians are people from X who live in Z" or similar though. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  22:23, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * While this could have been speedied as it has no real content, the subject itself is very much worthy of an article. We already have good pages on German-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, Ukrainian Canadian, and Japanese Canadian. There are 1.2 million Italian Canadian and I'm actually surprised we don't have a real article on them yet. - SimonP 21:43, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems like most developed XXXXian-YYYYian articles consist of the same storyline... how they arrived, why they came, what has their collective experience been since arriving, who are some prominent members of the group, where were/are they geographically concentrated. Each of those topics certaintly deserves its own article for each group. In my book, the "parent" article XXXXian-YYYYian would just be a listing of the subarticles where each individual topic can be more fully addressed. Yay usability! Feco 21:51, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, although worthy an article when written better. Feydey 21:47, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * delete, but only as long as it stays in such a state. Keep updated Circeus 21:59, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've responded to the challenge of those above and added some text, much of it along the lines of what Feco proposes. Please take a look at that and reconsider your vote, and better yet, add more text. There should be an article on one of the largest ethnic groups in Canada. Ground Zero 22:17, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]] Earl Andrew - talk 23:00, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Spinboy 23:23, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as rewritten and expanded. Just as worthy of an article as Italian-American, etc. as long as there's worthwhile content. 23skidoo 23:28, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. There is plenty of content that can be added to this article. Mindmatrix 00:23, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. An important topic and the article has a lot of potential. Paradiso
 * Keep. 1.2 million of them apparently and the article is in good shape thanks to Ground Zero. Capitalistroadster 02:38, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Italians have made many notable contributions to the cuisene of Soviet Canuckistan. Klonimus 03:56, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Total content of the original entry was "Canadians of Italian descent" sans period.  I'm guessing vandal bot because of that.  Hey, we got a great article out of this one! - Lucky 6.9 05:48, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep of course, with props to Ground Zero for the expansion and also to Feco, Starblind and Circeus for revisiting their votes. Highly important cultural group in Canada. (Why just the other day, I went on a binge of populating Category:Italian-Canadian politicians, off the top of my head, with existing articles.) Samaritan 14:30, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep &mdash;Michael Z. 2005-04-16 16:02 Z 
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