Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Borders of Guatemala

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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:02, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Borders of Guatemala[edit]

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not a good idea--insuffiecnt information for an article and not even worth a redirect. DGG ( talk ) 22:47, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There is extensive precendent for this type of article (see Borders of India, Borders of Russia, Borders of Israel, Borders of Spain, etc.) Can this article be fleshed out rather than deleted? Paisarepa (talk) 22:58, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Latin America-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:56, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Guatemala-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:11, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:50, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:51, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep clearly a notable subject given Guatemala's well-documented and long-running territorial disputes, as well as other border issues. The most prominent one of these is of course the Belize dispute, and if this were the only one then I would favour simply redirecting to the article that covers this. However, Guatemala also had a long-running territorial dispute with Mexico and had a brief conflict with Mexico in the 1950s related to border crossings. There was also a dispute with Honduras. In fact the only border which I was not able to find anything notable about was the one with El Salvador, which for some reason has an article. There is also the ongoing crisis of people crossing the Guatemala-Mexico border to reach the US, which is obviously a notable subject. Obviously some (not all) of these subjects are covered on other pages, but there's enough here for a stand-alone article on Guatemala's border in general. PS - WP:WAX is a bad argument to keep and I don't endorse keeping simply because other countries have similar articles. FOARP (talk) 07:37, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There - added all those references and a few more to the article, which, frankly, the nom should have done. I also think that WP:GEOLAND might well apply to this article (the borders are after all legally-recognised localities). FOARP (talk) 09:03, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep now, as FOARP has expanded it to make a useful page. – Fayenatic London 09:37, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per FOARP - multiple border disputes mean that there's no redirect target, and the expansion makes this a decent article. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:10, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable subject with further scope for expansion.Dimadick (talk) 22:51, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – A notable topic, per a source review. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:04, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.