Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International recognition of the Republic of Crimea

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. There were several suggestions to merge this into international reactions to the 2014 Crimean crisis or Republic of Crimea (country), or possibly some other targets that I missed (plus some renaming ideas). These seem like plausible suggestions, but I'm going to take the narrow view here and say that AfD is fundamentally for talking about deletion, and it's abundantly clear that nobody thinks this material should be deleted outright. How the material gets divvied up between the several articles seems like more of a content discussion, which is better handled on the article talk pages than at AfD. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:01, 28 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

International recognition of the Republic of Crimea[edit]

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International recognition is irrelevant to the crisis, as Crimea has already signed a treaty with Russia on accession, and has never stated a desire for nation-state independence. In fact, the Crimean Prime Minister Sergei Aksyonov has specifically rejected the "the Abkhazian version" of independence supported by Russia [1] The appropriate article about the issues surrounding the Republic of Crimea's territorial status belongs at: Accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation or Republic of Crimea. This article, on the other hand, only adds to the cluttering of articles dealing with the current crisis in Ukraine and Crimea. --Tocino 06:34, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep It was a (de-facto) country, if only for a very short period. International recognition may be irrelevant now, but we don't delete articles about historic issues simply because they have become irrelevant; once notable always notable. That said this should probably be merged into Republic of Crimea (country). Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 09:38, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete/ Merge into the "Republic of Crimea (country)". There isn't any content on this article which isn't already covered in the article "Republic of Crimea (country)". Yesturday I already proposed that this article be merged into "Republic of Crimea (country)" and it seems to have enough support to merge the articles. IJA (talk) 09:56, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – Far too early to discus deletion or merge. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 13:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy merge to Republic of Crimea (country). I do not know what the name for this one day legal fiction should be, but for now the content can be there. Now there are too many "Republic of Crimea" articles, but the content must go somewhere! -- Petri Krohn (talk) 05:52, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Republic of Crimea (country) has now been merged into Republic of Crimea, so this content can no longer go there. The article should be renamed to International recognition of Accession of Crimea to Russia or something. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 06:18, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. No reason to deletion. Three interwiki. NickSt (talk) 14:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It was an independent republic now part of Russia that is recognised by both Russian and Kazakhstan. 72.79.135.33 (talk) 15:15, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - It wasn't recognised by Kazakhstan, it was only recognised temporarily by Russia as part of a process/ procedure to 'legitimately' (in the eyes of Russia) annex it. Besides, all this information is included in the article "Republic of Crimea (country)". There is no point have the same information twice as this article doesn't add anything new which isn't available in other articles. IJA (talk) 16:45, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Republic of Crimea (country) as per consensus at Talk:Republic_of_Crimea_(country)#Proposal_to_merge_article_titled_.22International_recognition_of_the_Republic_of_Crimea.22_into_this_article. If enough content ever develops around the recognition of this country it could be WP:SPLIT, but currently there is not enough to justify two separate articles and this is just a WP:CFORK of Republic of Crimea (country) as all the content is repeated there. TDL (talk) 16:10, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep possibly expand to a broader article in the future that would also cover countries recognizing Crimea as part of Russia.--Avala (talk) 17:37, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Redirect I'd like it to be merged with Republic of Crimea (country). Mamemame187 (talk) 21:58, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Since Russia was the only UN member state that recognized Crimea -- which ain't nothing, but doesn't exactly a list make -- it's really not necessary to devote an entire article to "Russia recognized Crimea". This information can and should be simply folded into Republic of Crimea (country). -Kudzu1 (talk) 04:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Sceptre's suggestion -- far more relevant than Russia's sole recognition of the one-day state. -Kudzu1 (talk) 01:37, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ukraine-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bilateral relations-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:30, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, but refocus to international recognition of the accession. Sceptre ^(talk) 04:41, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't even think we need a separate article for the country, since it only existed one day, but this article is very clearly not needed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:11, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Also note the three interwiki links. Tibet2014 (talk) 00:50, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: the account Tibet2014 is just three days old.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 23:51, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Short of long-term WP:notability: there is nothing to recognize. Merge to international reactions to the 2014 Crimean crisis. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 14:17, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:GNG and muh feelings. Citation Needed | Talk 15:23, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into international reactions to the 2014 Crimean crisis or Republic of Crimea (country), international recognition was a one-off, newsy event that doesn't need to have its own article.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 23:50, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Three interwiki links Gurumoorthy Poochandhai 10:51, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a valid reason for keeping it, other Wikipedia follow different notability guidelines.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 11:54, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Is it possible for the result of a deletion discussion to be 'void'? The scope of this article has changed dramatically since the introduction to this discussion was written. As a result, it really feels like what is said there is void, and not applicable. Therefore, by definition, everything else written in this discussion must be void too. Furthermore, there is currently a discussion about restoring the associating article going on at the moment, and its outcome is rather instrumental with regards to the future of this article, so that's another thing to take into account, too. Redv Blue 01:17, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That’s right. There is another discussion, even closer relevant to this article, at talk:2014 Crimean crisis #What to do after normalization?. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 06:12, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, rename, and refocus to reflect the recognition of Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation as opposed to independence, per above. ansh666 04:44, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per Sceptre. The international recognition of Crimea as part of Russia is now a real fact and mustn't deleted. --Taichi (talk) 00:05, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It is long article and deserves NOT to be merged. 217.76.1.22 (talk) 13:25, 27 March 2014 (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.