Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2024 November 25
This was an unfortunate AfD featuring wall-of-text comments, COI meatpuppets, and a generally poor signal-to-noise ratio. My metaphorical hat is off to the closer, OwenX, for tackling this. However, that said, I do think he missed some crucial signal amid the noise.
During the discussion, three of us !voted to keep on the basis that papers in the journal are cited frequently in reliable sources including Science and Nature. See [1] [2] [3] for specifics. These arguments were founded on Criterion #2 of the WP:NJOURNALS essay, according to which frequently cited journals would count as notable. In determining consensus, the closer discounted these !votes on the grounds that C2 requires frequent citations of the journal itself, not of papers in the journal. See their closing statement and this clarification for details. However, this subsequent discussion on the NJOURNALS talk page resulted in a unanimous consensus that that C2 is indeed satisfied by frequent citations of papers in a journal.
So putting aside the COI !keeps, there seems to be an even split among the P&G-based !votes, which doesn't look like a consensus to me. Botterweg (talk) 19:02, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Endorse: OwenX gave a detailed closing statement that says it all. (Disclosure: I was the nom of this AfD). --Randykitty (talk) 19:32, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Endorse, you have completely skipped over the very salient point that NJOURNALS is not a guideline and GNG is the requirement for this journal to have a standalone. Therefore it is completely irrelevant what anyone's interpretation of NJOURNALS criteria is when the subject demonstrably does not meet GNG. JoelleJay (talk) 00:32, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- For better or worse (and I have mixed feelings) the NJOURNALS essay is indeed used as the basis for closing as keep when there's local consensus. In this AfD, nobody cited the issues with NJOURNALS as a reason to delete, so I don't think that's a factor in determining what the consensus was. Botterweg (talk) 01:13, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Endorse to my knowledge showing citation counts would be, as Headbomb said, through things like impact factors, not just individual instances of citations. We're on thin ice with NJOURNALS as is, I see no need to push it further. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:19, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Overturn to Keep there are two possibilities in a 5 keeps vs. 3 delete situation read as a deletion. In this case, it's pretty clear that the P&Gs with respect to journals are unsettled. In such a case, outcomes must be held to be descriptive: a delete is a supervote assuming that the folks arguing based on the currently recognized inclusion guidelines somehow trumps the numerical preponderance. Journals are a particularly thorny example, because notability doesn't work well for journals. The best journals are read and cited, but essentially never talked about. That's why notability is not, has never been, and will never be a core policy. It's a guideline, and to the extent that reasonably well-cited journals don't meet the GNG or an SNG, we obviously need another metric besides notability to measure inclusion. The Procrustean, if conventional. answer that journals don't fit well into our notability guidelines and thus should be excluded has everything backwards. Oh, and a no consensus might have been a better way to handle this, but I still believe that keep is the correct outcome based on the discussion. Jclemens (talk) 08:05, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Administrator asilvering relisted this "don't delete" discussion requesting more evaluation of sources for the subject to determine between keeping the article or merging into a related topic. The non-administrator closer seems to have ignored that comment and only counted the bolded comments when closing as "merge" without any more comments in the discussion. The closer did not respond when asked about it and has not edited in nearly two weeks. This discussion should be relisted. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Endorse close. The nominator makes a fair point that there were no further comments after the last relist, and a further relist might have teased some out, but there were no actual keep !votes on that discussion. The closest was my own, where I said I was leaning keep because I had found mentions (but not SIGCOV). I would have been persuadable to keep, but I could not find more sources myself, and my actual !vote was merge. Now the reason I think the merge close should be endorsed is this: the school sits within the Brest Naval Training Centre which also is home to the École de Maistrance and the École des Mousses. By merging these into a single article, we now have an article that is still poorly sourced, but is approaching a decent start class rather than a set of minimal unsourced stubs that had poorly machine translated names. On the back of this close I merged them all together into this article. Redirects exist so an interested reader will find their information need met, rather than finding a stub that tells them nothing. Overturning this close would mean demerger, and that would be a net negative to the encyclopaedia. I also presume that if the Lycée naval de Brest part of this article becomes more cleary notable in its own right, and the article section balloons as a result, then spinout is perfectly possible, and I marked the redirect as with possibilities and printworthy for that exact reason. Please also note that I renamed the Lycée naval to Lycée naval de Brest before merging under WP:MADRENAME. That is how it is known. You therefore need to view the history of the redirect at Lycée naval de Brest to see how the article looked prior to merge. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:10, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- I personally would probably have read the lack of further input as "no opposition to merge" and gone with merge -- asilvering (talk) 20:35, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Endorse - As noted, Asilvering had relisted to see if there were any other votes. When there weren't, a non-admin close of Merge was reasonable. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:16, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Comment to User:Mattdaviesfsic - When four of your AFD closes are taken to DRV at the same time, a lesson should be learned. When you resume editing, I suggest that your first task be to decide what the lesson should be. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:16, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Endorse as a correct reading of a non-controversial discussion and suitable for a NAC. However, at the same time an AfD closed as merge should never be implicitly construed as a barrier to a spinout should more sourcing arise suitable to justify one. Jclemens (talk) 08:14, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
Zainal Arifin Mochtar (closed)
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In a relisting comment, administrator Liz noted that the discussion should be closed as no consensus if there were no further comments. The closer, who is not an administrator, appears to have counted the bolded "keep" comments without reading the discussion nor the relisting comment, did not reply to inquiries on their talk page, and has not edited in nearly two weeks. Discussion has already been relisted twice and should be overturned to no consensus. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 18:20, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
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Closer failed to observe WP:RELIST and closed this discussion on the basis of a single comment. Closer did not adequately explain their close, did not respond to comment afterwards, and has not edited at all in about two weeks. This should be relisted to give time for additional comment. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:58, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
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- International reactions to the 2024 United States presidential election (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)
Not only was this a WP:BADNAC per criteria #2 (this is covered under Wikipedia:Contentious topics/American politics), the close didn't explain why merge !votes were weighted more heavily that delete ones, especially given the technical considerations such as WP:TOOBIG. On a purely numerical basis, there were 18 !votes mentioning delete (14 of which were to just delete without merging), 15 !votes that mentioned merging (including an equal number of "merge or delete" and "merge or keep"), 9 !votes mentioning keeping, and 1 !vote specifically opposing merging. Since merging didn't have a strong numerical advantage over deleting, I have a hard time seeing a clear enough consensus to not have relisted instead of closing. An attempt was made to discuss this with the closer at User talk:Mattdaviesfsic#Recent non-admin closes at AFD, but the closer immediately stopped editing when that was posted and has not been active in the 11 days since. --Ahecht (TALK
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- With this one honestly I think the thing to do is vacate the close entirely, and start a non-deletion discussion somewhere about splitting more lists out of that monster of an article. Enacting the close results in a 100+kB list being added back into an article that's already over half a megabyte; I said somewhere else that the resulting page would be in the top ten longest articles on Wikipedia by byte count, and I was already having problems loading the page on a gaming system that's less than a year old. More of the target article needs to be split off into companion articles and lists, not have more added back into it. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 17:30, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Overturn this is a BADNAC, fair and true, and should be quickly vacated. I have no comment on what should happen here. SportingFlyer T·C 18:29, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Overturn to no consensus. This is clear WP:BADNAC as there was nothing close to a consensus to merge, delete, or keep (or even to not keep with a delete/ATD split). These decisions are best handled by an administrator with significant experience closing AFD discussions. Relisting is an acceptable option as well, though I think it is unlikely any consensus will form based on the already high attendance. Frank Anchor 19:03, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Eh. Agree that this is obviously a contentious close, but given that the merge appears to already be in progress, I'd be inclined to leave this one. Normal editing can sort out whether all of the content is worth merging or just some of it. -- asilvering (talk) 20:33, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- • Overturn This looks to me like a clear cut case of WP:BADNAC. There has been one try at merging already, but that one was reverted due to technical issues with size. Like @Ivanvector I am also having issues with the article loading without a merge of another large article, I am also on a Desktop Gaming PC. User Page Talk Contributions Sheriff U3 21:16, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Overturn, but definitely not to "no consensus" as there was a clear consensus against keeping the article as a standalone. JoelleJay (talk) 00:39, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Do not overturn to no consensus which would serve the participants poorly where there was clear consensus that it should not be kept. The merge could be pragmatically upheld (the information would necessarily be pared back in a merge through editor decisions) or it could be overturned to delete. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:00, 26 November 2024 (UTC)
- Vacate BADNAC but I am torn between merge, relist, and no consensus. Delete !voters ignore ATDs and the NOTNEWS arguments are simply tired and wrong, so there's clearly no consensus to delete, nor any policy-based way for such to develop with a relist. Jclemens (talk) 08:11, 26 November 2024 (UTC)