Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Estonia–Luxembourg relations
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The result was kept. -- User:Docu 00:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
The result was overturned at DRV to delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:56, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The result was page turned into a disambiguation page. -- 02:40, 2009 May 28
Estonia–Luxembourg relations[edit]
- Estonia–Luxembourg relations (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)
another random combination, non resident embassies. very little third party coverage [1]. LibStar (talk) 01:57, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, Prime Ministerial and Presidential visits, growing trade and cultural contacts, four bilateral agreements, see here. Luxembourg is one of the Benelux countries, so it is natural to have the ambassador reside in Brussels. Also significant coverage in the Estonian media [2]. --Martintg (talk) 02:46, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete- first, we need secondary sources to establish notability, per WP:GNG. Second, claiming state visits as evidence of notability is rather odd; these happen literally every week of every year, yet here they go unnoticed in general. Why make an exception for AfDs of this series of nonsense articles? Would we ever, for instance, mention the visits in the subjects' biographies, or mention any of the other visits happening all the time anywhere else? - Biruitorul Talk 02:56, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - No offense to anyone but there is a double standard emerging on these articles in general. Many claim (not naming names) that State Visits can't help determine these articles notable but no policy can confirm this notion, others say they are but once again no policy can confirm that. What we need is a honest to god policy on bilateral relations so that way we don't waste resources here at Afd with constant article after article going up on the block. Secondly I quote WP:PRIMARY, "Without a secondary source, a primary source may be used only to make descriptive claims, the accuracy of which is verifiable by a reasonable person." So basically Primary sources can be used (in some instances) another notion that keeps being dismissed despite the fact that almost every article on Wikipedia in some way or another uses primary sources. I continue WP:GNG is a official guideline of wikipedia, something that should be looked at to help us choose when to use a primary source or not but when it comes to policy WP:PRIMARY part of WP:V I believe, outweighs WP:GNG per WP:PG. Per this the notion that primary sources can never be used is absurd. As I reiterate what I said at the beginning I am not mad at any user in particular, instead I am mad we have yet to have any clear policy on this something we need before constantly deleting these articles or even keeping them. -Marcusmax(speak) 03:13, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- There was a rough consensus against making a special standard for bilateral relations. WP:MILL is the main criteria I'm using for help in deciding how notability applies to these. I ask myself "Is this relationship exceptional"? A few visits with heads of state, an embassy, some normal trade... that stuff doesn't seem exceptional to me, when compared to other bilateral relations. Bilateral relations are pretty easy because they are a commodity. There's literally 20,000 of them for us to compare against. If you had to rate this one on a scale of 1 to 20,000, where would it land? In the top 100 most notable relationships? Top 1000? One like this is probably in the long tail of stuff that doesn't much matter. Gigs (talk) 03:33, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Most Americans wouldn't be able to find Australia on a map of the world much less know that it has a Prime Minister. (See here.) So don't you think asking them to NAME the Australian Prime Minister is a bit much? They probably know that Australians speak English because of Australia in popular culture. Drawn Some (talk) 04:35, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not arguing for or against keeping this particular article, but I must dispute the claim that notability means the same thing as exceptionalness (shouldn't that be exceptionality?). This is an encyclopedia, not the Guinness Book of Records. If every subject in a particular class passes the notability guidelines then we can have an article on every one of them, not just the exceptionally notable ones. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:38, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Another random combo. What's next? Antarctica–Mexico relations? --Unionhawk Talk 11:44, 13 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Soybean-Stringbean relations, I think. Stifle (talk) 11:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete No independent coverage of the topic to back up this random combination of countries. --BlueSquadronRaven 17:07, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Foreign relations of Luxembourg which now contains the content, in the usual way. Aymatth2 (talk) 03:07, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, nothing here other than directory entry. Stifle (talk) 11:25, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete no reliable sources that cover this supposed relationship and the two countries themselves have dispensed with the inconvenience of an exchange of ambassadors altogether, suggesting there's a reason there are no sources on the relationship: It barely exists at all.Bali ultimate (talk) 15:14, 19 May 2009 (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.