Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Data rescue

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The result was keep. And merge / rename as discussed below. Sandstein 11:37, 16 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Data rescue

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Looks like a case of WP:SYNTHESIS and WP:ADVOCACY. None of the cited sources calls this "Data Rescue". The "movement" has not gained notability. Efforts to "rescue" data are already documented in the relevant articles, such as Environmental policy of the Donald Trump administration. Nothing else to preserve here. — JFG ^talk 12:32, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As a generic term, "data rescue" could be redirected to "backup". — JFG ^talk 12:33, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete or redirect~~. I think Research data archiving might also be a possible target. — Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:55, 25 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That said, I think I disagree with lack of notability, and if someone has time to do a curated merge, or significantly rewrite the article, I would not be opposed to either. — Alpha3031 (t • c) 01:16, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Alpha3031: I suggest below we rename it. I gave four sources for the topic I consider this page to be about. What title do you suggest? --David Tornheim (talk) 04:39, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The new sources below make this WP:HEY for me.— Alpha3031 (t • c) 05:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Needs a better consensus as the only participant has proposed two ideas
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, AmericanAir88^(talk) 03:17, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Research data archiving would indeed be a better redirect target, if we admit that "data rescue" is the name of a special effort to archive research data. Sources do not indicate that to be the case, and "data rescue" has a more generic meaning. — JFG ^talk 16:35, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
JFG, I would have suggested Data archiving, but that page already redirects there, though I've now found Digital preservation, which seems to be a more appropriate redirect. — Alpha3031 (t • c) 00:36, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

At this point, it might as well be a short dab page among "backup", "research data archiving" and "digital preservation", although I still think deleting the term is the best outcome. — JFG ^talk 00:51, 3 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Need more opinions in this discussion as there are only two users discussing.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —AE (talk • contributions) 04:32, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and Disamb Add Data recovery to the list of articles in the disambiguation page ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 08:44, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Rename to Data rescue movement, and merge with two other orphan articles on the same subject: Climate Mirror and Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump. Data rescue title should be a dab page. -- The article is about the notable event of trying to save climate data from deletion by the Trump administration (and similar efforts preceding it). pbs pri Wired NYT. I'm uncomfortable with the title "data rescue" which sounds like a place to go when your hard drive fails as in data recovery. I'm not sure of the best name. I am open to suggestions. --David Tornheim (talk) 04:36, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've read the sources and they seem good. Since most of the sources refer to the movement as "Data rescue", I don't think a major rename is warranted. At most, disambiguating it to "Data rescue movement" might be in order, but I think maybe a hatnote to a disambiguation page (which needs to be created, though where at I'm not sure) would also suffice. I'm going to ping the other two participants Noian and JFG though, both to see what they think of the sources and if they have any ideas what the dab page should be named and what it should contain.— Alpha3031 (t • c) 05:14, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. I have changed my !vote to exactly match JFG's language, and hopefully we now have consensus. --David Tornheim (talk) 10:58, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Data rescue movement, and merge with two other orphan articles on the same subject: Climate Mirror and Guerrilla Archiving Event: Saving Environmental Data from Trump. Plenty of sources there, so that notability is achieved. Still, the Data rescue title should be a dab page. — JFG ^talk 10:22, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. --David Tornheim (talk) 10:58, 11 September 2018 (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.