Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Railway stations in Guinea-Bissau


 * 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. And then I will make List of Wikipedia articles about railway stations in Guinea-Bissau. postdlf (talk) 04:44, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Railway stations in Guinea-Bissau

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There are no railways in Guinea-Bissau bobrayner (talk) 09:47, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete We really don't need an article Railway stations in Guinea-Bissau when there aren't any - the one piece of information it contains is not about railway stations and duplicates the content of Transport in Guinea-Bissau -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 10:45, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 10:45, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's pointless to have an article about a non-notable null set. At least the redirect at the equally null-set Snakes in Iceland has a point, as the topic is a notable incident in the Life of Samuel Johnson. Who is writing about the lack of railway stations in Guinea Bissau? --NellieBly (talk) 16:27, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete (Speedy?) this is just completely absurd, Wikipedia is not a list of things which don't exist. Bob House 884 (talk) 19:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any applicable speedy criterion -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 19:53, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Per WP:SNOWBALL rather than the CSD, I can't honestly see anybody standing up and saying we need to keep this Bob House 884 (talk) 20:28, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, gotcha - but maybe they'll build a railway and a station in the next couple of days ;-) -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 20:34, 5 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - I agree with some above that we shouldn't need to go through the whole AfD process for Railway stations in Guinea-Bissau, Rail transport in Guinea-Bissau, and similar articles, but that's because, as NellieBly says, there can sometimes be a point in having a redirect for a null-set. The point is that retaining the articles as simple redirects may prevent their accidental recreation, preserve history showing why they are not needed until the railways are built, and as grounds for speedy deletion of similar named articles.  I would therefore favour posting them with a  tag instead, and so any useful information (ie that which is not duplicated) can be copied into the "Transport in xxx-land", and the original null-set page a simple redirect. Tim PF (talk) 23:46, 5 April 2011 (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.