Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fortress walls and gates of Bukhara

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The result was redirect‎ to Bukhara. Randykitty (talk) 11:23, 31 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fortress walls and gates of Bukhara[edit]

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Fails GNG, is an unneeded CFORK of Ark of Bukhara. Sources in article are blogs/travel websites, not archeological sources. BEFORE found nothing that makes this notable apart from the main article. Sourcing in the article shows there is nothing to merge, no objection if there is a consensus to redirect. // Timothy :: talk 10:52, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Architecture, History, and Uzbekistan. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Spiderone, again you beat me to sorting by seconds! Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 11:00, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please accept my apologies! Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect per nom, CFORK is sufficient for an immediate WP:BOLD redirect, AfD is not even necessary in this case. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:10, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Possible Weak keep Ark of Bukhara seems to be about the fortress or citadel, while this one is more about the outer walls of the city, which would be appropriate to have an article on, perhaps City walls of Bukhara. At present this seems to be a poor article, but the solution is to improve, not delete. Peterkingiron (talk) 12:02, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect I have studied the city in detail (I took Siege of Bukhara to featured article quality last year), and believe that the best solution is redirecting to Bukhara. As Peterkingiron points out, Ark of Bukhara refers to the inner citadel TimothyBlue—not the walls of the city itself. I do not believe that there is sufficient detail for this article to stand independent—e.g. Pugachenkova in Bosworth and Asimov's UNESCO history summarizes (p.508) the walls and gates of the whole Transoxiana region in around a page, and I have not seen enough scholarship elsewhere. Per WP:NOPAGE, I thus think that redirecting to Bukhara is the best solution. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:53, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Bukhara per ~~ AirshipJungleman29 above. Any appropriately sourced content can be merged from the history. Eluchil404 (talk) 23:56, 30 December 2023 (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.