Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rail transport in Burundi

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 delete. The dissenting "keep" vote points out several points which would have validity if Burundi once had a railway system, but in this case there is no evidence of there ever being one. Concerning proposals for a railway, I note the article does not point to any sources for such proposals whatsoever. The remainder of the article is about railways in neighbouring countries. Sjakkalle (Check!) 11:06, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rail transport in Burundi[edit]

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There is no rail transport in Burundi. This is presented as the main article from Transport in Burundi#Railways, but it contains less information and just directs back there. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please keep. I have begun to expand the article and it will be required later when the railways are built. Biscuittin (talk) 20:06, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – All of the sourced or sourceable content here would be best placed within Transport in Burundi, a 3kB article that is crying out for expansion. It is a disservice to the encyclopedia to split out multiple stubs when the parent article is left so sparse. cf: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Railway stations in Burundi --RexxS (talk) 23:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree. Anything that can be sourced about plans for rail development should go in the very short Transport in Burundi article, and do not justify their own article outside of it - if that article ever gets too big (like after Burundi actually gets a railway), things can be split out then, but having a multitude of tiny articles which taken together say very little is extremely unhelpful. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 23:17, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- No sources and too much WP:CRYSTAL at the moment, but even if the proposals firm up, it shouldn't need its own article until there are reliably sourced plans and signed contracts to build something. In the meantime, it should be merged into Transport in Burundi#Railways. Tim PF (talk) 08:32, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 10:42, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 10:42, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - While I favored deleting at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Railway stations in Burundi, the content on railways in a given country in general is encyclopedic. Railways are a major worldwide transportation function. Did this country have railways? If so, what function did they serve? Why don't they exist any more, or why did they never exist if that was the case? Are there any under construction? Proposals? Even if they don't exist, did exist or will, those aspects in of themselves are encyclopedic. --Oakshade (talk) 01:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I see someone has moved the railways content from Transport in Burundi#Railways into this article now (making Transport in Burundi even shorter), so in its current form this should not be deleted unless it is decided to undo those changes and put the content back where it was -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 06:28, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Not really. The page history of Transport in Burundi is sufficient to recreate that article, even if this article is deleted. For what it's worth, it is clear that removing relevant content from tiny articles like Transport in Burundi is no way to build an encyclopedia. --RexxS (talk) 09:30, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yeah, true - Transport in Burundi can simply be reverted. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 10:36, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Lacking any actual railways in Burundi, it would be better to fold a paragraph of text back into Transport in Burundi - an article which is crying out for expansion & improvement (the structure still looks as though it was copy & pasted from one of those CIA World Factbook pages). bobrayner (talk) 13:34, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have a WP:COPYRIGHT issue here? I had to remove a large quote from Railway stations in Yemen by the creator of this page; I wonder if there's a wholesale systematic copying? Tim PF (talk) 14:38, 8 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. "Rail transport in Burundi. There isn't any." Stifle (talk) 08:45, 14 April 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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.