Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoruba Naming Ceremony

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 23:51, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Yoruba Naming Ceremony
Original research? Somebody's speech? Not an encyclopedia article in this form, though I could see an article being written on this subject (at Yoruba naming ceremony). RickK 08:29, May 7, 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete -- somebody's speech for sure. -- Longhair | Talk 08:35, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wikibooks or wikisource. Kappa 12:49, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Yoruba if copyright is okay. If rewritten substantially before end of VfD, instead move to Yoruba naming ceremony.  JYolkowski // talk 13:57, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Why do you want to redirect? Yoruba says nothing about it? Kappa 14:02, 7 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep it's not well written at the moment, but there is some genuinely encyclopedic stuff in it, I propose adding a Cleanup to it (how does that fit in with the VFD process?). PatGallacher 16:38, 2005 May 7 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with yoruba. Klonimus 17:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

What can possibly make anybody want to vote keep on this? This is a speech, it's original source material. At best, it belongs on Wikisource. Don't just knee-jerk vote keep without reading the articles. RickK 21:06, May 7, 2005 (UTC)


 * I have gone to the trouble of re-reading the article, and I still vote to keep. It does actually contain some useful information about Yoruba naming practices.  I recognise that copying a speech verbatim is generally not a good idea, but sometimes it can be a useful starting point for an article.  Do I detect an element of First World chauvinism here? PatGallacher 01:54, 2005 May 8 (UTC)


 * Delete - if anything useful and verifiable can be gotten from it, I suppose a blurb could be added to Yoruba about the naming ceremony. But this article is not encyclopedic. -- Jonel 23:12, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

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 * Delete
 * See comments by Rick
 * hydnjo talk 00:37, 8 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete, this article looks like its a copyvio from somewhere. Either way as it stands its not encyclopaedic and not even up to transwiki standards. Megan1967 08:06, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Megan. Radiant_* 13:09, May 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Read Megan's wise comments. Jayjg (talk) 21:09, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
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