Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Condoleezza Rice visit to Blackburn and Liverpool

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 00:30, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Can't make an article for every cabinet member visit. Especially since it's only a two day visit that might not occur. Chuck 17:31, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete/Incorporate in Condoleezza Rice article Would be of better use there for people are unlikely to go to this article. --Horses In The Sky 18:06, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and take any info that is relevant into a one sentence summary in her article (if that). Batmanand | Talk 20:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unless something really significant happens on the trip. Sapient 22:53, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep there is no reason why we can't have articles for "every cabinet member visit", because Wikipedia's greatest strength is being able to record unlimited information if it might be of interest. This visit may well be, so it should be kept, but obviously rewritten from stratch when the visit has actually finished! 01:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete because this doesn't appear to be very significant. joturner 01:07, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Errrr. Press releases? This information is readily available from the media. TreveX^talk 01:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, WP:NOT for people to make up their own press releases. Deizio 01:39, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: As the creator of this article, I would point out that there are less notable articles than this on Wikipedia. The visit is significant for the region and is receving strong coverage in the British press. The article is also likely to expand as the visit progresses. The strongest reason to keep this article, however, is that the visit merits inclusion in the Blackburn, Liverpool and a brief mention in Condoleezza Rice. Rather than duplicating all this information, wouldn't it be better to keep this information in one place? TreveX^talk 01:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: If there are indeed less notable articles, we should delete and/or merge them, too. Fishhead64 07:16, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete (or at best Merge) - unless there is some significant event associated with the visit (unlikely) in which case the article would presumably be renamed anyway. Would be better merged as a one ot two line summary in Stop the War Coalition, Condoleeza Rice or e.g. Special relationship, Jack Straw or similar. Badgerpatrol 02:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and merge any useful material with Condoleeza Rice or related articles. Fishhead64 07:15, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as Wikipedia is not Wikinews, unless, as Sapient said, "something really significant happens on the trip." --Kinu ^t/_c 07:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. nn diplomatic trip. This isn't exactly the 1972 Nixon visit to China or anything. I wouldn't oppose a merge, per Badgerpatrol, however. youngamerican (talk) 14:25, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Is it possible to transwiki to wikinews? -- Astrokey44|talk 16:09, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, Wikipedia is not Wikinews, and Wikinews uses a CC license so we can't transwiki. User:TreveX is encouraged to submit it there. Stifle 00:00, 1 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. We shouldn't have an article on every diplomatic visit unless they are of remarkable historical significance. Coverage of this trip would have been fine on Wikinews, but not in the encyclopaedia. — Trilobite 03:46, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• delete, we do not have articles on every diplomatic happening.--Jiang 11:01, 4 April 2006 (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.