Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua

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 keep. Courcelles 07:00, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua

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Page contains little more than a copy of Template:Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua making it useless to include this page. Sumsum2010·T·C 03:10, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, a page whose only contents are a template is useless. JIP | Talk 08:26, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There may be more to say about Yar'Adua's cabinet between 2007 and 2010 than a simple list of ministers and dates. I believe there were some political upheavals in Nigeria during this period, and the cabinet was not entirely stable. Before nominating, the nominator could perhaps have made an effort to expand the page, or at least to check whether that was possible. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:54, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The concern of the nominator and seconder has been addressed without any need for an administrator to hit the "delete" button. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:21, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete What we have here is just a news report of actions by the president and his cabinet members. An article on the role of the president of Nigeria's cabinet in general might be a good idea. However just a report on who got hired and fired and who did what runs afoul of WP's "not news" policy. A brief summary of the events (explaining their importance) could be included in articles on the history of the country and in the bio of Mr. Yar'Adua. Borock (talk) 00:43, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Some readers will be interested in knowing who was in the cabinet of Yar'Adua and what happened during its term. This article gives them that information in the same way that Blair ministry, Brown Ministry and Cameron Ministry gives information about the equivalent cabinets in the United Kingdom. I will not comment on which country is more important today. The content is well-sourced, and the subject is clearly notable. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:02, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
~~Redirect or Delete~~ , unless there's something in the history that needs to be preserved. I've gone ahead and merged these (well-sourced) news items into the article about President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, including all citations to verifiable sources. Contrary to what the title suggests, this is not a listing of members of a presidential cabinet, but about several shakeups in the cabinet, including their dismissal by the acting President a couple of months before President Yar'Adua passed away. I praise the author for providing good information on the administration of Nigerian President Yar'Adua, but it doesn't need to be a separate article. Mandsford 03:07, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have replicated the information from Template:Cabinet of President Umaru Yar'Adua into this article, and have dropped the template from the article. There is no difference in what the reader would see. Is this an improvement? Aymatth2 (talk) 03:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Changing !vote to Keep As far as I'm concerned, it's an improvement that makes the article consistent with the other articles we have about a particular president's administration. I realize now that I didn't see the template, perhaps because it was one of those that has to be clicked to be displayed. I'll go ahead and revert my changes. Mandsford 13:49, 6 January 2011 (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.