Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Ford VIN codes


 * 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 soft redirect to Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN codes)/Ford/VIN Codes. Phoenix -  wiki  22:52, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

List of Ford VIN codes

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Successful creation of a Wikibook that incorporates this topic (and many other VIN Code topics), and this article doesn't adhere to Wikipedia policies EvanCarroll (talk) 18:09, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

This article was recently proposed for AFD, however in light of new information - predominately the successful of all ten other VIN Code articles from Wikipedia: I feel this should be resubmitted for deletion citing consistency. The new book Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN codes) incorporates and unifies all of the jarringly unfitting, tabular, un-cited information that previously resided on wikipedia. The wikibooks's chapter navigation is a superior form of navigation for this, that wikipedia requires excessive work to achive.

Furthermore, the articles are currently forked on both projects, so one should preside over the other. There are other problems with this article, that make it a bad candidate for wikipedia. When I use the term bad candidate, I do so signifying that even if the Wikibooks article will not be seen as a replacement, this still does not have suffice requirements for inclusion into WP.


 * These codes do not suffice WP:N -- obviously they are useful to owners of Ford, but who has written about them. ie. there isn't one news outlet or secondary source.
 * Much of this is presented as original-research, WP:NOR. Ok, so someone got these codes from a Ford source, and they are right? WP Does not permit this to be the primary publication of them.
 * Almost no prose, highly technical and esoteric, WP:IINFO a collection of indiscriminate information.
 * , all of the links to this article come from.

And lastly, the wikibook article, Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN codes)/Ford/VIN Codes has better formatting of the content. Thanks to additions by User:Random832.

User:Corey Salzano is the obvious candidate to oppose such deletion. He will be canvassed soon after posting.


 * Redirect to the wikibook (if that is possible.  Gtstricky Talk or C 03:11, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree fully, by deletion I meant redirection. I was thinking of the same thing. EvanCarroll (talk) 03:40, 24 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Kei  lana (recall) 22:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect to the Wikibook. Bearian&#39;sBooties (talk) 23:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Wikibook. It would be an inconvenience if a user searched for WP, but not WikiBook.   - Jameson L. Tai   talk  ♦  contribs   06:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the Wikibook. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:38, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to the Wikibook. -- 00:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magioladitis (talk • contribs)


 * 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.