Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong (2021)

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The result was redirect to COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong#2021 and merge content as appropriate. There is clear consensus here against standalone articles. Some users argue that the pages should be deleted outright as there isn't content that is independent of the Chinese government, but this is convincingly rebutted by the argument that summarizing government statistics is valuable when they are described correctly. This closure applies to all the nominated pages, but the closer tool isn't recognizing the other nominations: I'll implement the redirecting manually in a few minutes. Vanamonde (Talk) 15:36, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong (2021)

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Per the discussion at

Fram (talk) 10:11, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply
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Also nominated are:

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Randykitty (talk) 10:39, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 13:07, 13 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete, for the same reasons mentioned in the other timeline (no possibility of being a reliable and neutral article, fails NOSTATS). JoelleJay (talk) 04:06, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect all to the broader articles, but substantially consolidate the numbers. For the most part, these are reports of a handful of new cases occurring on any given day. These numbers could be summarized as a timeline by month rather than having numerous lines for two or three cases being reported on this day or that. BD2412 T 15:50, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all per nomination. The sources are not intellectually independent of the Chinese government; and as such the timelines fails
    WP:SIGCOV due to lack of independent sources. I am not seeing a benefit of a merge or redirect of this material, or a consolidation into a table in various articles due to sourcing problems.4meter4 (talk) 21:21, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Delete as I agree with the concerns that independent reliable sourcing does not support this article. Xymmax So let it be written So let it be done 01:29, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment:
    Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing (2021) includes the publications 中国新闻网, 央视, 新华社, 新京报网, Headline Daily, and Beijing Daily. There is content in the articles that is not solely cited to the gov.cn government websites. I support a redirect to allow editors to do a selective merge of the content to the parent articles. Wikipedia:Redirects are cheap, and retaining the history would allow this content and these sources to be consulted in considering a selective merge to the city and province articles. Cunard (talk) 09:06, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply
    ]
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