Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Global Economics

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 * 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 discussion was  keep and mark as historic. I will add an introduction and links as suggested by Metropolitan90. I declare an interest: as a fairly inexperienced New Page Patroller, I made the first post to AN/I that there might be a problem here, and I learned a lot from this saga. JohnCD (talk) 12:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject Global Economics
This project has been inactive since 2008, no activity since. JJ98 (Talk)  18:55, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's true, but the table in the article is perhaps worth keeping because it helps keep track of the articles that came out of the project (many of which weren't suitable for an encyclopedia and some of which still exist). Cordless Larry (talk) 19:29, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and mark as historic This was a classic example of just about the worst way to use Wikipedia as a class assignment. The background to this is in the AN/I archives. It is also linked from this lengthy feature in The Signpost (May 9, 2008) and in the talk pages of several of the articles that were created by this project. It generated a lot of useful advice and examples that can of benefit to any schools/universities embarking on a class project or assignment at Wikipedia and especially to their students. Voceditenore (talk) 19:40, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Would it be OK if I notified this discussion to the editors who were most active in writing the student advice and making the table that tracks the fate of the articles? Voceditenore (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Since no one objected, I've notified the editors who participated at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Global Economics. Voceditenore (talk) 18:53, 2 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep and mark as historic/inactive as is standard procedure for inactive projects. It's easier to reboot an old project than to build it up from scratch again.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  06:34, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and mark as historic. I recommend adding links to the ANI discussion and Signpost article, and changing the introduction to indicate that this page describes a university project which resulted in many of the submissions being deleted. Basically, it would be something we could point people toward if they asked what could go wrong with assigning students to write Wikipedia articles without providing them with guidance or advising them to adhere to encyclopedia standards. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:41, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep as per my reasoning above. I'm also convinced that the page is worth preserving as a reminder of what can go wrong with this type of project. Cordless Larry (talk) 01:18, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete "a classic example of just about the worst way to use Wikipedia as a class assignment" (above) sums this up. I don't agree with the logic of putting a small (easily removed) tag on the thing. I don't think that's a solution. The best way to deal with it is surely to delete it. -- Klein zach  05:22, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and mark as historic - I think Voceditenore sums up well the reasons it would be useful to keep this as a record of what the project/class did. I also like Metropolitan90's suggestion of adding relevant links and introduction to clarify just what this was and what happened. Thanks to Voceditenore for the notification of this discussion. Lady  of  Shalott  20:00, 2 March 2011 (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.