Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle East Textbooks (2nd nomination)

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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 delete. T. Canens (talk) 01:30, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Middle East Textbooks
Inactive WikiProject - subject very narrow, and only one member (ever), who has not significantly contributed to related article for months. To me there seems to be very little scope for development of this as a WikiProject. Claritas § 19:26, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Per nominator.  Hi 8 7 8   (Come yell at me!) 19:28, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete If the project had grown it might be a different story, but as it is it doesn't seem viable to keep a project with only one member in it.    ArcAngel    (talk) ) 20:13, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, mark historical-As mentioned at WP:MFD, WikiProjects are generally not deleted unless the project in question is "entirely undesirable", which is not the case here. I'd also not oppose making this a task force of an appropriate parent project (WikiProject Western Asia, perhaps?) if the project in question would favor such a move.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 *  Keep, mark historical  per Fyre2387. This page may prove useful as a stepping stone for creating a task force for WikiProject Western Asia. Cunard (talk) 06:35, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The issue is that Textbooks in the Middle East is not an encyclopaedic topic, as there is very little or no research in the subject, and therefore the WikiProject itself is inappropriate. I can understand why the content of Israeli v. Syrian textbooks might be a subject of study, but the textbooks are only a subject of study in that they relate to the Arab-Israeli political conflict. Claritas § 14:26, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I've looked more closely at the page's history and have noticed that appears to be the only person involved in the WikiProject. Further, there appears to be little useful history, and in light of this being brought to MfD in 2008 and no activity occurring since 2008, I change my position to delete, but allow userification to Michael Safyan if he wishes to use it for something. Cunard (talk) 18:04, 1 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. The scope of the project is too narrow. Yes, inactive WikiProjects should not be deleted, but this is different.  Kayau  Voting  IS   evil 11:18, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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