Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Malta-Africa relations


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 05:45, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Malta-Africa relations

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 * Removed. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 17:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Again, a bunch of stubs about the foreign relations of some tiny country in the Mediterranean. (If you find any that should be kept, please point them out.) King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:09, 15 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Question - I am assuming you mean all x-y Malta and some other African country stubs, as I am a bit confused what this Afd is for?? - Marcusmax ( speak ) 00:11, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It was just for ease of using Twinkle. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:13, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all but Malta–Tunisia relations per This Times of Malta article about a meeting between the countries foreign ministers over repatriation of migrants, Article detailing illegal immigration between the two, malta Media article detailing the tourism ties between the two countries, article on growing buisness relations also during World War Two Malta was a staging point for attacks against Tunisia. - Marcusmax ( speak ) 00:27, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all remaining nominees, as bilateral relations are not inherently notable, and these have not been shown to be. - Biruitorul Talk 02:00, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * comment I'd suggest some more checking on Egypt- and Morocco- considering the geography. there's likely to be something in their history, considering the centuries that Malta was a crossroads. In fact, there should be enough for these two just from WW II. DGG (talk) 03:45, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment--I'm somewhat surprised that I couldn't find anything for Malta and Lebanon. How I'd wish that the machine who produced these stubs did so on the basis of sources. Does the creator being banned as a sockpuppet not have any bearing on the deletion of this and other articles? Drmies (talk) 03:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * It might if some other editors weren't bound and determined to have it that bilateral relations articles were inherently notable, even as stubs. -- BlueSquadron Raven  15:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

*Keep Malta-Africa relations, merge the rest into it, and then delete them. MyDog22 (talk) 22:10, 16 April 2009 (UTC) (if it wasn't obvious, this was a sock, now indef-blocked).Bali ultimate (talk) 01:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all Not notable, not likely to be found notable. -- BlueSquadron Raven  15:52, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep --Mr Accountable (talk) 16:15, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You need a reason. - Biruitorul Talk 18:19, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Reason: Assume good faith on the part of the editors. --Mr Accountable (talk) 16:02, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Nothing to do with establishing notability. - Biruitorul Talk 16:26, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Noncontroversial notability is perhaps the issue, instead of simple notability. --Mr Accountable (talk) 02:57, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Kenya and the RSA, perhaps Algeria and Egypt too; there aren't significant sources for any of them, but the geographical proximity of those two to Malta means that there's more likely to be something significant, especially Egypt as both were major parts of the British control of the Mediterranean. Delete those two if nothing is found, but I believe that there should be a lower threshhold for them per what I said about geography.  Nyttend (talk) 17:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all Fails notability. Edison (talk) 18:42, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete all no notability established in any of these and none establishable by me.Bali ultimate (talk) 19:24, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Egypt-Malta but delete the rest. It's before most Wikipedians time, but the EgyptAir Flight 648 botched rescue, with Egyptian commandos storming a hijacked airliner in Malta was certainly notable, and there are other relations between the two nations | Egypt and Malta sign security cooperation agreement.  It's because Malta is "some tiny country in the Mediterranean" that it is important to the North African nations that are on the same sea.  Mandsford (talk) 20:48, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Kenya and RSA, Keep Egypt. The first two seem pretty hopeless, while Mandsford has provided good points regarding Egypt. Regard Algeria and Morocco, I'll suspend judgement for now hoping sources appear.--Aldux (talk) 14:47, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment How many sock puppets have contributed to this discussion and other similar current discussions, I'd wonder. --Mr Accountable (talk) 02:57, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * 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.