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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Soft Redirect. These pages have all been marked as {{historical}} as they have all become inactive as per the discussion below, and contain rather complex syntax that if needed again could be easily revived. All pages have been {{softredirect}}'ed to Portal:Current events, removing all content on the current page except for links to geographically related portals. — xaosflux Talk 01:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current events: Regional pages

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I'm nominating the following pages for deletion:

These Regional news page are inactive and haven't had any news for the past year, except for links to Wikinews. Since Wikipedia is not Wikinews, I believe they should be deleted -- Eklipse (talk) 20:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete the rest. Reasons: China (largely Weird Asia News), Europe (not much in history except European portal links, which are also collected at P:B), Israel (2 months of current events), Middle East (news only for 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, extensively covered and sourced at Timeline of the 2006 Lebanon War), Latin America (very short history-nothing there), Poland (very short history-nothing there), UK (extensive news only for 2 months), US (news for 1 1/2 months) --Galatee (talk) 10:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - I notified the Portal:Current events project itself[1] and the major contributors of that portal project[2][3][4][5][6] on 19 October 2008 in hopes of seeing whether the portal had use for the pages. The response from the project members above seems to be delete. As for marking historical, not every page has historical interest and there does not seem to be any Wikipedia historical interest to these pages. -- Suntag 18:14, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment. Why not redirect them all to Portal:Current events? That's very active and a natural target for people clicking a link to regional news, as they're all represented to some degree. I remember reading that a redirect to an appropriate page is better than looking at a deletion log, and there is historical relevance for the pages with archived news items. Two days is short notice for Portal talk:Current events, as it's lightly trafficked in comparison to Portal:Current events. Gotyear (talk) 22:42, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect all to Portal:Current events. While I agrre with the general tenor here to definitely discontinue these pages, deleting them seems doesn't seem to be necessary. --Tikiwont (talk) 08:44, 1 November 2008 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.