Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Min (ship)

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. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:13, 3 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Min (ship)[edit]

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Lack of sufficient notability; a ship built for a television program. Fails WP:GNG. The article cites that television program and a blog. The article is only two sentences and has been that way for a decade. It seems destined to be a permastub. It was dePRODed by Andrew Davidson without explanation. — BarrelProof (talk) 01:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to the article about the TV program itself. Oaktree b (talk) 01:37, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: BarrelProof, did you search for sources before nominating the article? Because if you did, you would have found plenty that would make it easy to build out the article. Examples: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6. --Usernameunique (talk) 01:40, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I did try, but not very hard. The fact that "Min" is not a very unique name may have hindered my efforts. — BarrelProof (talk) 01:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. We keep articles on notable topics, even if the content is a stub and no one has expanded it. Remember there is no deadline for doing so. The fact that significant coverage in reliable sources is easily found means the topic is notable, and Wikipedia should have an article on it. @BarrelProof: I think you should withdraw this nomination. ~Anachronist (talk) 01:48, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at some sources, the article should probably be renamed Min of the Desert, which is the actual name of the vessel. ~Anachronist (talk) 01:51, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I had that thought too. That would also allow us to get rid of the parenthetical. --Usernameunique (talk) 02:10, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep & Rename - Usernameunique has already shown that there was plenty of coverage on this ship in reliable sources, so Keeping should be a given at this point. I agree with Anachronist that the article should be renamed to Min of the Desert, as that is the full name of the vessel. Rorshacma (talk) 04:43, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep & rename as per Rorshacma's comment. SailingInABathTub (talk) 11:03, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:25, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I've updated the title as suggested above and made a start on other improvements. I was particularly pleased to find a good picture (right). As for the PROD, notice that the nominator did not notify the page's creator – Anthony Appleyard – when they tagged it for "uncontroversial deletion". Tsk. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The creation of that article was an investment of about 5 minutes time a decade ago. Deleting a permastub shouldn't involve a lot more effort than creating one. (And I did notify both Appleyard and you when I filed the AfD.) — BarrelProof (talk) 16:21, 26 February 2021 (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.