Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.zr

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 Keep. --

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The country-code top level domain of a country that changed its name, and only ever had a handful of domain name registrations before being phased out. Wikipedia is not a directory, and I can't see any non self-published sources (i.e. anything but the IANA website) reporting on this. If it leaves a gap in a series, that's unfortunate, but necessary as I don't see the multiple non-trivial reliable published sources for standalone notability. h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 19:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep ccTLD's are a pretty rare thing. There are a limited number and there have been changes have ususally meant a drastic event has occurred. For historical purposes I think it should be kept. If a deletion occurs, I would suggest a redirect to
  talk 20:21, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Merge and redirect to
  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Remember them? still out there! --Dhartung | Talk 21:35, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep. There is no reason to delete this just because it is no longer in use. Keep for historical purposes, although I realize it probably will never achieve much more than stub class. Keeper | 76 22:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep the stub, in concurrence with Keeper76. If anything, it comes up as historical interest, much like .su - even if .su had significantly more domains in the TLD. =^_^= --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 22:20, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep per Keeper76. And, if for nothing else, for consistency's sake; recognizing that .zr was technically separate from .cd is important for historical context and aids in navigation from the ccTLD template. -- Keith Lehwald (talk) 02:27, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• I'd merge the information into .cd, and redirect it. I (talk) 05:06, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep just because something no longer is named as such or exists is not a good reason for deletion. I think that all country TLDs are notable. 132.205.99.122 (talk) 20:24, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I don't object to a keep, I just felt there wasn't really enough information to make a separate article warranted, unless .zr had some separate notability I wasn't aware of (along the lines of .to or .cx). --Dhartung | Talk 00:41, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect - notable, but could easily be covered in the
  Snigbrook (talk) 02:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep - notable enough.   jj137 (Talk) 02:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Notability is not temporary, "if long-term coverage has been sufficiently demonstrated, there is no need to show continual coverage or interest." This guideline applies, in a way. ♠TomasBat 00:42, 25 November 2007 (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.