Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by Human Development Index (1998)


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The result was delete. Haukur (talk) 11:37, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

List of countries by Human Development Index (1998)

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This page is a half-baked attempt to create a new article by copy-pasting another page and then updating. I think the text copied was from List of countries by Human Development Index (2009). The article was then heavily edited by IPs over the next couple of weeks, adding data, much of which definitely has not come from the 1998 report and some of the country names are from the 1980s, no longer existing. This has previously been declined for speedy deletion, and I declined it for prod in 2016, but now wish I hadn't. I removed some of the more glaring disinformation but lost enthusiasm and the page has remained riddled with errors for years. It is also a magnet for IPs who try to update it to the current HDI for their country, or even just try to make their country look better. The current consensus seems to be have a table for each previous years' HDI in the Human Development Index article. Articles for deletion/List of countries by Human Development Index, 2005 came to a similar conclusion. Merging to the HDI article is not a good idea as the data on the page is completely untrustworthy. Anyone wishing to include the 1998 HDI would be much better off taking the information directly from the UN report itself. SpinningSpark 11:37, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 11:39, 24 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete We do not need to have separate data tables for every year, we are not an archive of historical data but it could be merged with the main list as a comparison if necessary. Reywas92Talk 17:24, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I know the accuracy of article content is not usually a case for deletion, but if this article is indeed a constantly-corrupted dataset that readers will assume is accurate, we do them a disservice by keeping it. Mccapra (talk) 08:29, 31 August 2019 (UTC)


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