Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurdish kingdoms

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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. Jaranda wat's sup 00:30, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kurdish kingdoms

Kurdish kingdoms (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I am concerned with the inclusion criteria (or a lack of it).

Also see (all three below and this list was created by same user):

Some of the linked articles are about fictional work (book) such as Mardi, or about an extinct food such as Manna.

--Cat out 11:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Speedy delete. Poorly written (no prose) article with terrible inaccuracies and totally unverified:

  • There is just a list if "Kurdish Kingdoms" with no intro, explanation, description of why are these Kurdish kingdoms. And to which historical period do they refer?
  • There are no sources or citations verifying that these are indeed Kurdish kingdoms.
  • Of the 20 unsourced "Kurdish Kingdoms" that are mentioned, only 5 of them have blue links. All the other 15 are unverifiable (because of the lack of sources) red links. So, 75% of the article is red and unverified - while the rest 25% is only unverified!
  • Let's see the 5 blue links: Lullubi links to an ancient tribe (not kingdom). In Lullubi's article there is no reference that this tribe is at least Kurdish or linked to the Kurds. Manna links to the Biblical food "manna"! No Kurdish kingdom here of course! Let's continue our effort to save the article! Mardi links to Herman Melville's third book (1849)!! My amazement flares up! Where are these Kurdish kingdoms?! But I continue: it is Mittani's turn now. I learn that this was a Hurrian kingdom in northern Mesopotamia from ca. 1500 BC. Nothing about Kurds in this article and in Hurrians as well. My hopes are not yet dead. I still have one more link: Nairi. But I go to a disambiguation page! Does the editor want me to go to Nairi people? But in this article I learn about this nation's links with the Armenians and nothing about the Kurds!

To sum up: This is a terrible, completely uncyclopedic article.--Yannismarou 15:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete I agree, the article seems OR and has little content. Even most of the blue links don't redirect to an actual kingdom, but to disambig pages or even a random novel. TSO1D 16:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per Yannismarou.--Aldux 16:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to History of the Kurdish people which is a much better article that covers the same subject already. In fact, I'd say do that with at least two of the other three you nominated already. FrozenPurpleCube 17:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete For the exact same reasons that I've stated in the AfD's on Kurdish Principalities and City-States which are linked to above. No need to copy and paste those same arguments here. --The Way 21:28, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong delete. Mittani? Kurdish? Noooooo. MaxSem 07:38, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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.