Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of rulers of the Gurma Mossi state of Kuala

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The result was speedy delete as G6 technical deletion. I'll revert this action if anyone objects, but this seems to me to be uncontroversial cleanup and hence speedy is in order. SpinningSpark 23:09, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

List of rulers of the Gurma Mossi state of Kuala[edit]

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Bear with me here.

A bunch of these lists went to a no consensus AFD recently. Basically, the topics (or many of them, at least) are notable. On the other hand, our coverage of precolonial West Africa is terrible and these lists are all referenced to a source deemed unreliable.

I have been one of the editors working to fix the problem. I created List of rulers of Liptako to replace one of the articles from that list. Because the Liptako article will (eventually, anyway; it's still awful) cover the area known as Liptako (broadly construed) rather than strictly just the former emirate called Liptako, I included the rulers of Koala, the previous kingdom in that area in the same list. I've finally been able to get access to the highest quality French-language scholarship on the topic and fleshed out the king lists (including the relatively minor second Koala kingdom). In doing so, I've essentially content forked another of the existing lists: List of rulers of the Gurma Mossi state of Kuala.

There is no need to preserve the "Gurma Mossi" article for attribution, because I didn't refer to it in any way (and its referencing, as noted, isn't reliable, so no merger is possible). I don't want to redirect it to the list I've created, because the title is factually incorrect: Koala (or Kuala, if you're French) is a Gurma state... but it's not a Mossi state.

Really, this should be fairly uncontroversial, but this request doesn't meet any speedy deletion criteria, and because it survived an AFD it is technically invalid for PROD. So... here we are. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:59, 29 May 2018 (UTC) Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 21:59, 29 May 2018 (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.