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 Restored. This article about a German district was overwritten by an article about an apparently non-notable blog. This has been reverted, and I am also blocking the user responsible, Memohwiki (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log), because all of their edits seem to be disruption of this sort. Sandstein 10:52, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The Vach[edit]

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Article about a town in Germany hijacked to become an article about a non-notable blog. Fails WP:GNG and WP:NWEB. Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 01:08, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Opposing, should keep: article is encyclopedic. Memohwiki (talk) 01:21, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Notability is established by using reliable sources to demonstrate that the topic passes a Wikipedia inclusion criterion, not just by throwing the word "encyclopedic" around like a nerf ball. Bearcat (talk) 21:53, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator’s rationale. Shawn Teller (talk) 04:25, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Article is useful. Proposing recreation of German city as solution 92.34.206.154 (talk) 06:46, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Websites and Canada. AllyD (talk) 08:40, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the article on the German town as at this revision and revert its title to simply Vach; in principle, repurposing an existing page is unacceptable. Regarding the newly-launched Canadian website The Vach, there is no evidence that it has attained notability. Given the circumstances here, perhaps that title should be protected to ensure that any future attempted articles pass through AfC rather than repurposing existing articles. AllyD (talk) 08:50, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Restoring the article and moving the title to that of its prior subject works for me as nominator. Current subject remains non-notable.
Geoff | ^{Who, me?} 13:36, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:09, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the article on the German town. The same user has also hijacked Dottedline snake eel to the organization "The Dotted Line Foundation". That move has been repaired. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:47, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. StarryGrandma (talk) 19:48, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the old geographic article, but ensure that the poorly sourced advertorial about a website gets entirely deleted from its edit history. Bearcat (talk) 21:53, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Restore the original article since the town is probably notable, just not the website that got plastered over it. BuySomeApples (talk) 06:50, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Update: note that another editor (not otherwise involved in this discussion) has already reverted the text back to the German town, although it has not yet been moved back to its prior title. Closure of this discussion will have to address the second part of that, but the first part can now just be addressed by revdelling the website hijack out of the edit history. Bearcat (talk) 14:20, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry about that, I saw the discussion and was like "I think this is hitting SNOW and restoration is quick. I will wait for the closure to see if I can use Move Ask me about air Cryogenic air (talk) 04:34, 18 December 2022 (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.