Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Irish in the Western United States


 * 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 of the debate was delete. — Feb. 28, '06 [10:15] 

The Irish in the Western United States
The text is far too long and written in too poorer style to have any salvagable value. I hate to flush such information, but it's already covered to a large extent under Irish American and this article is simply too indepth. It also covers information completely irrelevant to its subject. Bobby1011 15:49, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Not written as an encyclopedia article. JPD (talk) 16:07, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unwikified essay, I would not be at all surprised to find out this was a cut-and-paste of someone's school assignment. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  16:34, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above -- Ruby  16:41, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above Honbicot 18:19, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as appears to be a cut and paste from elsewhere. If not copyvio, might be worth keeping brielfy on a talk pages to see if any information/references might be useful in other articles. MartinRe 19:21, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I have left a note on the creator's talk pages notifying them of the afd, shouldn't that have been done earlier, as an important part of AfD etiquette rather than simply afd'ing it four minutes after creation? MartinRe 19:21, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Verify source of information, and Keep - For the love of God... this is verifiable material, and has bibliographical sources. Even if it's someone's term paper that they C&P'd, if we can verify that they want to contribute it under GFDL then we can dice it up and use the information (and sources) in other articles, for what it's worth. If it's "too indepth" as the nominator says (what a bizarre complaint for Wikipedia), or if there's dilatory details on the history of Ireland, Celts, etc, then edit the info down (mercilessly, as it says at the bottom of the edit page).
 * Please people, don't discard even mediocre writing out of hand - writing an encyclopedia is the goal here. These are not rationales for deletion - see Deletion policy at "Problems that don't require deletion".
 * This is not American Idol where we pithily plonk articles all day just because we don't think they've got what it takes to be a star. The subject matter is notable and deems inclusion, perhaps through merger to other articles. sofixit. KWH 15:05, 24 February 2006 (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.