Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Merzifon

As we seem almost evenly split between merge (with implied redirect) and delete, I see no compromise position, so the article stays as is, even though no one supported this. However, editors can merge as they choose anyway (without redirect), and we can revisit this in a few months if we wish to. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:45, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Merzifon
I don't feel strongly about this, and if the consensus is "keep" I will gladly clean up and reformat this article, but this article seems to me to be a quintet of five fairly unnotable quotes about a relatively unimportant location. The quotes are all from the same source, "Adventuring with Anatolia College", by George White, at one time president of the college. I will admit that all quotes are sourced, from a book published by a reputable publisher (the Herald-Register Publishing Company of Grinnell, Iowa), but all of it seems so marginal to me as to not be worth keeping — Ubiquity 00:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Vote closes: 01:00, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote extended to 01:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC). The only thing we agree on so far is that we don't want the article here, which will be what happens if we don't reach consensus, so I've giving it another week for more participation, discussion, and opportunity for fixing issues. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge (if verified) into an entry on Turkey. Only one quote in the bunch is explicitly about the title village (which is spelled differently in the quote) - the rest seem to be more general. We should, however, have an entry on Turkey. I don't think we should have entries on non-notable small towns. They may merit a Wikipedia entry, but a geographic location should have a more substantial basis for claiming a Wiki quote page (either being at least at the country level, or being a world-famous metropolis along the lines of Chicago or Shanghai, or having some key historical fame, such as Waterloo, Carthage, or Normandy. BD2412 T 07:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Not very inspiring quotes. We do have an article on Turkey, but it could do with a clean-out (just one long, poor quote).--Cato 16:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per BD2412; agree with Cato that Turkey needs sorting out.--Poetlister 16:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge, as suggested by BD2412. ~ UDScott 18:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge Non-notable.--Yehudi 09:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless truly memorable quotes can be found instead of this unfocused set of excerpts about a town of less than 70,000 (today; who knows what size it was when this was written). After adding proper source lines for the book Ubiquity mentions, I did a little more digging and found that the link provided is just a SUNY Oswego Mathematics professor's personal website, where he has apparently posted the entire content of this work because of his personal ties to the region. This is probably a copyright violation of this 1940 work, which wouldn't even be arguable from an academic POV (nothing to do with the instructor's coursework) if it weren't a flagrantly substantive portion of the work made available not just for students but for the entire world. (Academics should know better.) I might have supported a "merge", but the unpithiness, the obscurity of the town, and the apparently unseemly means of obtaining the material discourage me from keeping anything here. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:10, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with Turkey--Lookatthis 18:21, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Cato. - InvisibleSun 12:35, 22 December 2007 (UTC)