Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Syrian civil war detailed map


 * 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The result was Withdrawn by nominator. Ironholds (talk) 01:11, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

Syrian civil war detailed map

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Not an article at all; it's a page consisting entirely of an embedded map. Ironholds (talk) 23:03, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * This page is fantastically useful for people following the conflict. Who cares if it's an 'embedded map', its a incredible piece of work. Keep updating, don't delete. Please — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.164.117.225 (talk) 23:16, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep, though perhaps move to wherever an image should be located. This was developed in Template space, and was just moved to article space, then promptly nominated for deletion.  I think it needs to be moved to wherever detailed maps / images are kept.  Certainly it could exist over in Wikimedia commons.  I believe there also are photos and maps and other images in some Wikipedia area, though those are often moved to Commons then deleted from here.  It is not appropriate to AFD this, at all.  There is just confusion from someone having done an inappropriate move.  Note, i see it is linked from articles like Syrian Civil War, though in that article I don't see where it appears (perhaps it is linked from a navigation template there).  It's an awesome-looking map, obviously useful, needs to be just relocated appropriately, not deleted. -- do  ncr  am  00:38, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Seems reasonable; investigating the history I see the same thing. Why on earth was it moved into article space? User:Barcaxx1980? Ironholds (talk) 00:40, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * This is indeed a template and not an article. User:Barcaxx1980 (new to wikipedia) suddenly and without consulting with anyone moved the template to an article, which is a completely ridiculous move! I have now moved it back to a template. Can we now close this discussion before wasting more of people's time as the article is now only a redirect (which can be deleted)? Tradedia talk 01:09, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Totally :).
 * Keep. Since I'm not sure if this is the correct page for the discussion, I paste here what I wrote in the other one: "The map is a very good tool to understand the details of the war in all the Syrian territory."--Andres arg (talk) 00:54, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect to Syrian Civil War. Although I concur that the map is useful, it doesn't seem to meet the standards for a stand alone article. -Ad Orientem (talk) 01:05, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. The map is very good, and gives important information that is not in anywhere else. I am with keeping the map. I moved it to an article because some users requested that to avoid deletion. Now, Tradedia moved it back to a template which is ok. The important thing is to keep the map, no matter if as a template or an article. --Barcaxx1980 (talk) 10:00, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


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