Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Wyandanch

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 merge to Wyandanch, New York. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:10, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

History of Wyandanch

This article's content, if needed at all, should just go into Wyandanch, New York, already an article that needs some big-time improvements.

P.S. Although not related to this discussion, Wyandanch is perhaps the crappiest place on Long Island; gangs, poverty, crime, you name it.

--Nicholas Weiner (talk) 19:08, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:22, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

• Merge Its going to be a very big task. Both are well past WP:LENGTH and are full of non encylopedic nonsense. I'm curious. It reads like a archive dump from a library or summat. scope_creep (talk) 20:36, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
• Merge only after intense scrutiny... only the content with appropriate citation should be merged. Given the length and number of sources on a per-section basis, a lot of this may be synthesis, and without footnotes, much may be original research. What's worse is that some might be copyvio or plagiarism. If the decision to merge is made, there needs to be extreme care. --Kinu ^t/_c 19:41, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
• Severely prune and merge to main article. As another user mentioned, this is a "newspaper-clipping collection" at best. As I mentioned earlier, combined with the main article, this would be the 8th largest non-list article on Wikipedia. Thus, major pruning, inlining of references, and copy-editing needs to be done, which I realize will be a tremendous task, probably involving many people. There are definetly things that need to be cut out entirely or reduced to a sentence or two. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 02:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

• Eliminate If someone can explain how to transfer "Wyandanch, New York," and "History of Wyandanch" onto a memory stick, I will do so and direct the complete elimination of this article, which seens so objectionable to so many. The article was written to counter the stereotypes which have developed about Wyandanch. Mr. Weiner obviously belives that the gangs and crime which do exist in Wyandanch are entirely the fault of the people of Wyandanch. This is not the case. The great majority of the people in Wyandanch are not criminals and do not belong to gangs. The History tries to explain the forces and factors which have stimulated poverty and devient behavior in Wyandanch. The Wyandanch, New York article tries to acknowledge the many fine people, past and present who have struggled to help the community. Again, explain to me how to transfer this to a memory stick and I'll gladly move it to another format: perhaps, Google Cloud. When it is removed, please remove it all except for the 2007 stub and make sure that it can't be brought back so it does not appear in more than one place. 24.184.230.106 (talk) 02:32, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Ldoughist24.184.230.106 (talk) 02:32, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
• Rewrite As others have mentioned, both this article, and the Wyandanch, New York article that it was originally part of are "newspaper-clipping collections," that have sources mixed in with the content of the article themselves. Due to the length of both, I have to oppose any effort to merge the article. ----DanTD (talk) 04:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

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.