Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Presidency of Ilham Aliyev (2nd nomination)


 * 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 merge to Ilham Aliyev. His presidency is clearly notable, so this is more of a content question of whether a fork is desirable. Overall, the rough consensus is that the amount of puffery in the presidency article as well as the relatively short length of the main article make the fork superfluous. However, there is no reason to delete the article and its history as bits of the content could be used to improve the main article. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:38, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Presidency of Ilham Aliyev
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There is no reason why a separate article for Aliyev should exist when there is ample space on the main Aliyev article (and most of the content in the main Aliyev article is poorly sourced and written). Forks such as this one inhibit the construction of well-written articles because Wikipedia editor efforts are diluted across multiple articles for no reason. If there is any valuable content in this article (from what I can tell, most of it is puffery sourced to the authoritarian government in Azerbaijan), then it can be merged with the main Aliyev article. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 20:54, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:13, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Azerbaijan-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:13, 3 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep for the same reason as this same article was kept less than a year ago. There is no valid reasoning for deletion, per WP:DELREASON.--User:Namiba 22:30, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I suggest you read my reasoning closer. Are you disputing that WP:CONTENTFORK is one of the WP:DELREASONs? It's not even just a fork, but a POVfork that serves as propaganda for the authoritarian leader of Azerbaijan. 95% of the content does not meet the RS guidelines (it's all sourced to the authoritarian regime itself), the other 5% should be merged with the main article. "Advertising or other spam without any relevant or encyclopedic content" is also one of the WP:DELREASONs. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 22:37, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak keep: I agree with snoogans that many of the sources are primary and less than reliable; however, this is an appropriate content fork in theory. Once the problem of the sourcing is resolved, the article will probably be good to go. Curbon7 (talk) 23:12, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete I can't see why we need this separate article, the main Ilham Aliyev article is already in a much better shape with ample information about his presidency, and majorly improving this article will make it a duplicate. So my vote is to delete this unnecessary article. - Kevo<sup style="color:#d90012">3 <sup style="color:#0033a0">2 <sup style="color:#f2a800">7 (talk) 18:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete I can’t see any reason to have a separate repeating article like this. Either merge with Ilham Aliev, or delete the article if there isn’t anything to merge (duplications). ZaniGiovanni (talk) 09:38, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:CONTENTFORK, there is no good reason for fork to exist. Jeepday (talk) 15:04, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

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