Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ivory Coast
- 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. I've never deleted an article with over 900 citations. Can this be expected with other COVID-19 Timeline articles we might see pass through AFD? Liz Read! Talk! 23:10, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
P.S. And it had 1537 back links due to its appearance on a COVID-19 template. Liz Read! Talk! 23:14, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ivory Coast
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While there might be a salvageable article on this topic, the entire thing here is one of the longest articles currently in Wikipedia mainspace, but the content seems entirely
WP:BATHWATER, but I feel there's no way to save this article. BrigadierG (talk) 23:39, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: COVID-19 and Africa. Shellwood (talk) 14:22, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
- I have been away from COVID-19 Wikipedia for quite a while now, but I saw this issue coming when the project was still in its infancy, i.e, massive swathes of statistical data being added to Timeline articles of most if not all countries/territories or for ones where such articles were created. Majority of these articles only state the number of cases, recoveries, deaths and vaccinations of each day either from the start or after a certain point in time - the information which is already available in a much more concise and accessible manner in the Timeline charts. As is visible in this article, there is only sporadic information apart from stats until July 2020 - rest is all written up stats.
- Not sure if this has been brought up in COVID-19 Project, but I believe it is now time for a massive cleanup of the project, starting with articles like these. There is only one solution here - deletion unless a Timeline article states more information of other kind than written up stats.
- Pinging, @Onetwothreeip:, who tried to propose splitting of this article some months ago, also @Zsteve21: and @Blubabluba9990:. •Shawnqual• 📚 • 💭 16:22, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:TNT applies in this case. No objectection to draftifying either if an editor steps forward willing to take on the task of basically creating an article from scratch.4meter4 (talk) 13:58, 19 October 2022 (UTC)]
- Delete, the little information present here can be copied into the main article's timeline section. •Shawnqual• 📚 • 💭 16:05, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
- Keep I know I said I wouldn't do deletion requests anymore but since I got pinged here I figured I would give my thoughts. Though this may just be a list, there are articles on literally every other country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles need to be consistent. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 19:18, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
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