Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia


 * 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   speedy deleted as copyvio of. I write bureaucratese like this for a living, and I can tell from a mile away when someone copy-pastes governmentspeak from a government website into an article.  Sandstein  15:37, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Regional Council of South Ostrobothnia

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Just another local bureaucracy; anything special about this one? Biruitorul Talk 03:02, 4 October 2008 (UTC) 
 * Keep as a sub-national government. -- Eastmain (talk) 04:13, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * If Finland were a federal state with sovereign sub-national entities, then it might make sense to have articles on those governments, like we do for (say) Germany. But (except for Åland, for which we do have an article on its government) Finland is a unitary state, with power concentrated at the centre and very little devolution to regional bodies. Moreover, local councils are created by and can be abolished by the national government. (We don't, for example, have articles on too many of the 3000+ county governments in the US, also created by higher authorities - exceptions being very populous entities like LA County or Cook County - which, I might add, actually do some important things.) There's a nice red link under "Regional Council" here - let's delete this and write a couple of sentences about it there. Or, since they all do the same thing, write an article on regional government in Finland. But a stand-alone article on a toothless body is neither helpful nor wise, as someone will come along with articles on its 18 counterparts, and perhaps on similar sorts of county governments elsewhere, none of which would be especially useful to the project. Biruitorul Talk 05:34, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Governmental body. 94.192.13.95 (talk) 11:33, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, but as my comment above indicates, is that inherently notable? If so, why? Biruitorul Talk 18:07, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Finland-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  21:02, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  TravellingCari  16:22, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:18, 9 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge to Southern Ostrobothnia — surely the government is a worthy topic to cover in that article, even if it's not a really notable topic by itself, which it isn't. We can always split it out if the government section of that article grows too large for the article.  Nyttend (talk) 14:50, 9 October 2008 (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.