Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates
UAE/Dubai through the eyes of an Indian, UAE/Entertainment, UAE/Cultures. Content perhaps more suitable for Wikitravel, although it primarily reads like a journal entry with opinions and conjecture inserted. I hope this user starts a blog and includes a link to it on his user page, because the story looks like it could turn into a very interesting read! --MShonle 02:40, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Comment - I've left a message on the user's talk page to explain the VDF nomination and Mshonle's ideas. I've invited the user to make a comment here so let's wait a bit before we delete and see if they want to move the minimal content to a blog. And yeah, it does sound like it'd be interesting. Serge 10:19, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Delete - I'm willing to acknowlege that this is a new contributor experiment, but there is a very strong POV that comes across with this Wikibook. Something that talks about the United Arab Emirates as a country and a travel guide would be interesting. I hope that things like this, in principle following NPOV rules and other Wikibooks policies, eventually do get written and not shunted off to a Wikicities website. Take some time before deleting this content, and hopefully the contributor/author will try to clean it up quite a bit. There are other forums for a strong POV attitude regarding traveling/living as a ex-pat in other countries but Wikibooks is not that place. --Rob Horning 04:46, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Delete - I have reproduced below a copy of the entire text, entirely written by User:Hellznrg. It is mostly a personal non-neutral POV. The less-than-20% figure is already in Demographics of the United Arab Emirates, though Wikipedia does not mention censorship of movies. --Kernigh 04:29, 12 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep - I have reproduced below a copy of the entire text, entirely written by User:Hellznrg. It looks like a stub. Deletion policy says to keep any stub that is more than a dictionary definition, unless it only contains "utter nonsense". A guide to the UAE can be an instructional resource. Keep the stub available for contributors to expand it and make it NPOV. --Kernigh 18:22, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - I am again changing my vote because it seems that a contributor would start again without expanding this stub. --Kernigh 19:04, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I just noticed a new contribution, UAE/The rifts, from Special:Contributions/195.229.241.181. Because there was no vfd on the book, contributors are unaware of this vote. I will add a vfd now. --Kernigh 19:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Kernigh 05:27, 6 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete -- I see no way that another contributor could even start to help the book as it is now. An NPOV cultural guide is entirely acceptable, but that's not what this book is; it's simply a journal entry and I'm not sure the original author even wanted others to help (beyond, say, spell checking). As I said before, it is rather interesting reading and this is not a critique of the work at all. --MShonle 21:45, 23 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete The whole premise of this book is a NPOV violation. It would be much better suited for wikicities or wikisource even. --Whiteknight T C E 02:32, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Concensus was to Delete. This discussion has gone on for more than a month and is starting to clutter up the VfD page, and the last edit on any page was in June, so it isn't showing progress either. --Rob Horning 07:01, 13 November 2005 (UTC)