Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goma (people)

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 no consensus. So Why 15:51, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Goma people[edit]

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Very narrow topic for separate article. Possibly merge with Goma. Anand.abhishek73 (talk) 20:57, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are the people connected with the city in any way? --Colapeninsula (talk) 11:27, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:59, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:59, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:07, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 10:07, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: If this is an ethnic group of reasonable size with its own language, we should certainly have an article on them. I think there may be a problem with searching because of how bantu ethnonyms, language names and so on are often constructed through prefixes. There is one ethnic group called Goma but also referered to as Wagoma (Google Books search) -- are they the same? Regardless of what happens to the current article, that shouldn't create precedent against a better article being created in the future. How about moving this to draft space? --Hegvald (talk) 13:17, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Delete or draftify?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, So Why 08:20, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Neither delete nor draftily; but improve. Unlike terms like The New York people or The Paris people, this term refers to a distinctly identified ethnic race that has been researched by numerous authors over the years:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] I would suggest Keep-ing this article and improving thereon. Lourdes 09:33, 15 July 2017 (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.