Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Guantanamo Bay detainment camp


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was Keep - MfD is not the wrong forum, although WikiProject subpages should normally be discussed on the project's talk page, all project space is within the jurisdiction of MfD; however, deleting a deletion sorting page without raising the issue with the relevant projects/users is not helpful and there is no consensus to delete. Doug.(talk • contribs) 01:42, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Deletion sorting/Guantanamo Bay detainment camp
This is too specific of a deletion sorting. There is not much activity on this page and entries on Guantanamo Bay can easily be inserted into WikiProject Deletion sorting/Cuba which isn't even very active itself. Tavix (talk) 19:34, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep what harm do you think it does to the encyclopedia? It would seem to me the people knowledgeable in the two topics will be quite different,as are the usual deletion concerns. DGG (talk) 20:27, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Why do you think it needs to do harm to be deleted? The fact of the matter that not even about 1 article per month is used for the Guantanamo Bay sorting, which really makes it quite inactive compared to the other categories, especially since it hasn't been used since July. I am pretty sure that if someone looking through the Cuba sorting list sees an article that pertains to Guantanamo Bay, they should know how to handle it as such. Tavix (talk) 20:43, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This is specific to Guantanamo Bay detention camp so it has very little to do with Cuba. It is a topical not a geographical sort criterion with currently no obvious existing parent. --Tikiwont (talk) 07:54, 14 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete This is probably the least active deletion sorting category. Too narrow in focus. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 00:58, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - I agree with DGG that it could be a useful sorting, but the question is whether it is being used? It has been a while since the project page and its talk page has seen much action. Since the sorting page was created on 24 August 2006, it appears to have been used in 33 deletion discussions per What link's here (an average of 1.4 uses per month). What link's here sorts entries by page creation number (oldid number). A review of what link's here for Guantanamo Bay detainment camp shows that it was last use on 5 July 2008 in this AfD. The use of the sorting page seems to be coming to an end. It might be premature to mark it as histoical. Give the page another three months and if it sees little to no use during that time, then relist at MfD. -- Suntag (talk) 04:11, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Wrong forum. This is a deletion sorting dispute that should be worked out by interested editors on a relevant talk page.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 11:52, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Wrong forum - this should have been listed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting rather than here. It's up to the WP:DELSORT guys how to organise the deletion sorting categories, it's not really a matter for MFD. (Personally though, I'd suggest closing this one as overly specific and probably unnecessary.) Terraxos (talk) 01:02, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep and let the sorters hash this out. You never know how many more afds will come, at it'll be there if needed.  Syn  ergy 04:19, 18 September 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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.