Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Kurdish mountains

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 delete. --Coredesat 05:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Kurdish mountains

List of Kurdish mountains (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

We do not sort mountains based on ethnicity. It would be ridiculous to have a 'list of white mountains' and etc.

Also see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurdish principalities and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurdish city states

--Cat out 12:31, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

• Kurdistan does not seem to have clearly defined borders (according to us, estimates of the region's area range from 190,000 sq km to 390,000 sq km), which would cause major problems for this list. Delete unless uncontroversial and unambiguous membership criteria are defined. Demiurge 13:35, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete criteria vague, classification by countries a better alternative. —Tokek 14:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Demiurge, "unless uncontroversial and unambiguous membership criteria are defined".--Yannismarou 15:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Tokek. --feydey 15:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Move to "list of mountains in Kurdistan" if Kurdistan has variable definitions then include all of them with explanations. See also Category:Lists of mountains for reasoning behind move. Mister.Manticore 00:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

  Kurdistan is defined by whoever is defining the borders. Unlike countries there are no official established or proposed borders. There are sources that suggest Half of Northern middle east is a part of Kurdistan including half of Turkey, half of Iraq, half of Iran, good portion of Syria, good portion of Azerbaijan and good portion of Armenia^[1] other sources give Kurdistan a much much smaller area ^[2]. This one was drawn by a former US gov employee ^[3]. There is a wide variety of maps on google image search, ^[4] which also divides most of middle east as random countries. --Cat out 09:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

  I do not see your problem as insurmountable. Include all of the definitions that are at least somewhat reputable, with explanation. It's not that hard to do in a well-constructed article. Mister.Manticore 17:03, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete until there are specific inclusion criteria applied. SkierRMH 01:42, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per previous comments.--Aldux 16:25, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep (Changed to Delete) - as long as the mountains are notable and have articles, they can be included in this list. Although I would suggest a category for this and all related lists of mountains. Yuser31415 01:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, but for different reasons than the other AfD articles on Kurdish topics. Mountain ranges should be categorized/listed according by actual geographic dimensions. For example, List of Anatolian Mountain Ranges would be acceptable, but not this. Too much unnecessary overlap would occur otherwise. Keeping this would allow for things like a List of Turkish Mountains and List of Ottoman Mountains which would be rather similar in content. Mountains aren't classified by ethnicity, ethnic groups also move which would change the parameters of the regions in question. The only exception I see would be lists of mountains in modern existing countries. --The Way 02:00, 31 December 2006 (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.