Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jewish population of South Africa


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The result was   redirect to History of the Jews in South Africa. Lankiveil (speak to me) 05:11, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Jewish population of South Africa

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No other such article about Jewish population in a certain country exists, and the article "History of the Jews in South Africa" addresses everything. In addition, the information in this article isn't backed up by any sources at all, and I can't even seem to find a single source for verification. Besides, the article has no structure and has been edited about 6 times since 2011. -Shalom11111 (talk) 23:28, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete due to failure of WP:V. If sources are found, ping me, the topic may be notable. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 23:34, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:41, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:42, 12 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, per the above arguments, but perhaps keep a redirect to History of the Jews in South Africa. הסרפד  (call me Hasirpad) 19:22, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect per nominator's original suggestion atTalk:Jewish population of South Africa to History of the Jews in South Africa because this is useful FACTUAL information, reverse WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is no excuse for excluding it. BUT then Keep it all by using . It is easy to find references for this, just see South African National Census of 2001 and South African National Census of 2011 (no one says those should be "deleted"!), then see  Official census page; Statistics South Africa - CENSUS 2001 - Census in brief; Census 2011: Statistical release; Census 2011 Enumeration; Census 2011 Products; Statistics Act of 1999. User  would/should know how to do that technically, see his user page at User:Shalom11111, as well as his original suggestion at Talk:Jewish population of South Africa. IZAK (talk) 00:03, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge / Redirect to History of the Jews in South Africa Many of these places should be omitted, but the populations for places with meaningful Jewish communities should be shifted to the history article, where this information will add context to the article. Alansohn (talk) 02:16, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete A useless article that fails to provide references let alone meaningful information. All other valid reasons for deletion have been stated by Shalom11111. Khazar (talk) 03:56, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
 * For those interested in a source, including this link shows the most recent figures, which are from 2001. There aren't more updated figures available since the religion question wasn't asked in the 2011 census. I'm also not sure that they should be used to count the Jewish population, since it only considers Jews by religion while excluding Jewish people who are not religious for example.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 04:16, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
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