Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Sterling Currency in the South Atlantic and the Antarctic
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The result was keep. Feel free to continue merge discussion on the article's talk page. Regards, Arbitrarily0 (talk) 00:25, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Sterling Currency in the South Atlantic and the Antarctic[edit]
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Belongs as a section under sterling Orange Mike | Talk 04:03, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not as simple as that. The purpose of the article was to serve as a linked article for another article which hasn't yet been written. In the not too distant future, I intend to write a summary article entitled something along the lines of 'The History of Currency in the British Empire'. Sterling was never the unique currency in the British Empire. There were large dollar and rupee areas within the British Empire as well. If the picture is to be accurately completed in the summary article, it is important that there will be a link to the remote South Atlantic and Antarctic regions. It just so happens that in the those regions, the sterling currency is used. The purpose of the link will be to clarify this fact. The article which you want to delete was never intended to be an article about the sterling currency as such, and so it would be inappropriate to put the material into the already existing article entitled the pound sterling. However, if you like, you can put a link to this article into the pound sterling article. David Tombe (talk) 06:04, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- comment - then why not start with an overarching article on Currency in the British Empire? --Orange Mike | Talk 20:40, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not as simple as that. The purpose of the article was to serve as a linked article for another article which hasn't yet been written. In the not too distant future, I intend to write a summary article entitled something along the lines of 'The History of Currency in the British Empire'. Sterling was never the unique currency in the British Empire. There were large dollar and rupee areas within the British Empire as well. If the picture is to be accurately completed in the summary article, it is important that there will be a link to the remote South Atlantic and Antarctic regions. It just so happens that in the those regions, the sterling currency is used. The purpose of the link will be to clarify this fact. The article which you want to delete was never intended to be an article about the sterling currency as such, and so it would be inappropriate to put the material into the already existing article entitled the pound sterling. However, if you like, you can put a link to this article into the pound sterling article. David Tombe (talk) 06:04, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree that it belongs as a section under sterling, preferably with links from articles on the relevant territories. With its current title, not many people are likely to find it anyway. While David Tombe is developing another article, the place for that is in his sandbox.
- Ehrenkater (talk) 15:33, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On what basis would it fit into an article on sterling? It would have to be in some section about the extent of the usage of sterling beyond the British Isles. So then when an article does eventually come about regarding 'currency in the British Empire', which will be divided into regions, what are we to do about the South Atlantic and Antarctic regions? I don't intend to hurry up about the intended article, because I first of all have to tidy up alot of issues about the rupee zone. Meanwhile, this article is harmless. If you put it into the sterling article, is there also going to be material on sterling in Australia, New Zealand, the British West Indies, British West Africa, and Southern Africa etc.? If you do decide to delete it, please let me know in advance so that I can copy and paste the material and if necessary put it in in its entirety when the full British Empire article finally appears. David Tombe (talk) 16:40, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, I'd like to see more detail in the article but a cliffnote summary can be included with Sterling and this could be a standalone article. Currencies are notable, can't see why this one wouldn't be. 16:44, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Also, There's been alot of links already put into other articles about this article. Eventually, the intention is to have articles for,
(1)British North America (including the USA)
(2)Europe (Heligoland, Gibraltar, and Malta)
(3)The Middle East (including Cyprus)
(4)The Rupee Zone
(5)South-East Asia (Malay States, Borneo etc)
(6)Hong Kong and China coast
(9)British Southern Africa
(10)Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
(11)South Atlantic and Antarctica
and finally a summary article for all of these regions. David Tombe (talk) 17:01, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Pound sterling. If this information ever grows out of proportion to that article then it could be split out again, but it doesn't seem that way at the moment. 86.134.72.95 (talk) 04:11, 21 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]
- Keep Allow the article to naturally expand, it's a notable topic and the article already has sources. No need to delete at this time. Outback the koala (talk) 06:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy procedural close AfD is not the forum for merge discussions, WP:PM is. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 09:34, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep The article is of interest and should remain. -- Île flottɑnte~Floɑting islɑnd Talk 21:11, 25 February 2010 (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.