Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kenya used car import law


 * 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. J04n(talk page) 11:17, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Kenya used car import law

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Overly detailed, how-to-ish treatment of an obscure topic that probably fails WP:GNG. Orphaned for four years now. BDD (talk) 22:19, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kenya-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 22:21, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 22:21, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. --BDD (talk) 22:21, 6 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LlamaAl (talk) 00:01, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LlamaAl (talk) 00:12, 20 February 2013 (UTC)


 * I would take issue with the characterisation of this topic as obscure. Such laws may seem so to many people in the more developed Western countries, where there is a plentiful supply of older cars to satisfy the demand for used cars, but have a significant effect in developing countries where many people who would like to own a car don't have a hope of being able to afford one under eight years old, and where there are very few reliable older cars in the indigenous market because car ownership is in general very low. I don't have any experience of Kenya but know well that equivalent protectionist laws in Poland in the 1990s were a major topic of discussion. Of course these are only personal impressions ("original research" in Wikipedia-speak), but no more so than the nomination rationale, with its guesswork of "obscure" and "probably" and the totally irrelevant "orphan". Phil Bridger (talk) 00:37, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:NOTHOWTO. Like Phil Bridger mentions the topic could possibly be notable in Kenya but at the moment the article is written like a Japanese car import guide for Kenyans. It doesn't pass WP:GNG in its current format since it's unreferenced and all the external links point to generic websites. The way the statistics are formatted suggests that they may have been lifted straight from external sources. Funny  Pika! 21:03, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Week Delete fails WP:NOTHOWTO, although it might be worth a complete rewrite to talk more about the law itself, instead of the specific howto details. Tiggerjay (talk) 20:47, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
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