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The result was delete. Sandstein 20:22, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT rights in Western Sahara[edit]

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OK, non-exhaustive list of policies, guidelines and essays (in particular WP:ATA) that may be relevant here:

• Reason this article should be speedily deleted: this article practically has no content other than links. A total violation of WP:A3
• Reason this article should not be speedily deleted: this is an important topic, and should have an article. It has existed since 11 January 2009 Someone could step in and improve it.
• Reason this article should not be referred to WP:AFD: "Articles for Deletion is not cleanup".
• Reason this article should be be referred to WP:AFD: maybe "LGBT rights in Western Sahara" could be a good stand-alone article, or could be a good WP:REDIRECT to (which page?).

Discuss. Pete AU aka Shirt58 (talk) 09:21, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Perfectly valid disambiguation page. If this were deleted, it would leave a redlink on the Africa topics template footer. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:45, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect at most Why not redirect this valid name to a valid target? As noted, deletion will leave a redlink in dozens of articles. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:50, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:20, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:21, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 11:21, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. This is not a disambiguation page. This is a stand alone article which should be addressing the subject but says nothing about LGBT rights in the Western Sahara. Instead, the reader is directed to LGBT right in other countries e.g. Morocco and LGBT rights in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. There is already a navbox which the reader is quite capable of using to visit those articles. This particularly article serves no purpose. There is practically nothing about the subject. I put a speedy deletion tag on it but it was removed. Either delete it or WP:DRAFTIFY it. We cannot even merge it to another relevant article because there is nothing there to begin with. Also, see the talk page.Tamsier (talk) 13:42, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, not as a dab page (which it isn't), but as a navigational tool. It's a weird situation, with two countries each controlling parts of the territory, so this is preferable to copying info from their respective LGBT rights articles. A3 doesn't apply, since it refers to external links, not internal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clarityfiend (talk • contribs)

• Delete - This and LGBT rights in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Why? Because this article is essentially a pseudo-disambiguation page between two pages (LGBT rights in Morocco and LGBT rights in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic), but only the Morocco article is meaningfully sourced. LGBT rights in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is supported by a single, non-RS database, which in turn provides as it's source a copy of the Sahrawi constitution in French (which nowhere mentions LGBT) and an article on LGBT rights in Morocco (which doesn't mention Western Sahara). A quick WP:BEFORE shows no other sources. Therefore, of the two articles that are disambiguated by this page one should be deleted for failing WP:GNG, so therefore there is no need for this page either. FOARP (talk) 17:28, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Both this and LGBT rights in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Most of the latter article was copied and pasted from LGBT rights in Spain. I have removed the irrelevant sections and now there is hardly any meaningful content left. Esiymbro (talk) 06:34, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And what remains is sourced in Equaldex, which is not an WP:RS since it appears to be user-generated content and lacks an editorial team. FOARP (talk) 07:58, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: Could this be redirected to LGBT rights in Africa? Thsmi002 (talk) 14:39, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment— I agree with Esiymbro and FOARP.Tamsier (talk) 17:33, 25 July 2019 (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.