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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was mark historical. ···日本穣? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 04:00, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Dead project. This project has only three members. JJ98 (Talk / Contributions) 06:37, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

and so on.....
  • Mark as historical - I started the project. It never really took off, but a few users made contributions. We generated a lot of documentation (which Moxy listed above) that could potentially be useful. I still refer to it every and now and then.--Bkwillwm (talk) 17:39, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Bkwillwm: Can you explain a bit more about this? Why is this information in the form of a project? If it is all reference information wouldn't it be better in the mainspace? I'm probably missing something here, perhaps you can fill me in? Thanks. --Kleinzach 00:11, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The project was intended to take the public domain Country Studies and incorporate their text into Wikipedia systematically. Text was taken from a CS, wikified, and added to Wikipedia. This was organized as a project to coordinate the effort. Editors could view a country subpage and easily see what text had already been used and where the text had been added. Unfortunately, only a few users were ever active at a time. Wikipedia has become much more fleshed out since this project was started. At the beginning there were many missing "Education of CountryX" and some "History of" articles, even for mid-sized countries, were stubs. Given Wikipedia's growth, this project isn't as necessary. However, this project still documents what has was used and what could be added. I refer to it occasionally when I need to confirm that article text originated from a CS, or when I want more material for an article. I think others could potentially find this information useful as well.--Bkwillwm (talk) 03:39, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep as historical - I also think this is useful and probably should be kept. This isn't the regular WikiProject cruft. If kept we could also move it under the Library of Congress project and link it to that project. The LOC project is sorta slow right now but its gaining some behind the scenes momentum and should be taking off soon. --Kumioko (talk) 20:51, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think that might make the most sense if LOC project members are planning on working with the Country Studies. If that's the plan, then I'm not sure I see much benefit over keeping it in place as an inactive project.--Bkwillwm (talk) 03:51, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I have linked this project to the Library of Congress project and over the next couple weeks I will merge the information in a better manner. I recommend we close this MFD as Merge into Library of Congress. --Kumioko (talk) 14:38, 7 July 2011 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


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