Talk:Cobb Hill

This article was nominated for deletion on 11 February 2011 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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I started edits of the Cobb Hill article on 2/7. Refinements from other members or friends are welcome. Philip W Bush 20:36, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cobb Hill members have agreed that the recent vandalism of the page defeats the purpose of having an article about Cobb Hill on Wikipedia. All content has been removed, and links to it removed from other articles. We don't have time, energy, or inclination to be policing the article to see if it is being used as a forum for political, homophobic attacks. Philip W Bush 19:12, 13 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The key here is that blanking is never the proper way to handle bad content on the project. Blank articles show up on a number of error reports (which is how I found this one) and can generally cause other problems. See WP:BLANK for guidelines on the problems. That said, if you really want the article removed, you are going to need to get it deleted. There are three different deletion systems on the project. Speedy Deletion is likely not appropriate. It is only for very specific reasons. The closest in this case is Author Request, but there are enough other edits to make that not really valid, and Philip W Bush is not the original author anyway. WP:PROD is the easiest, and may very well work. But it only takes a single protest for any reason to invalidate a PROD deletion. So I would suggest starting with PROD, following the steps given on the link I gave. If someone does protest, you will need to then use WP:AFD to get it deleted. This entails starting a full debate on whether the article should remain on the project. But hopefully, if PROD works, AFD will not be required. I hope that gives you the information you need to proceed. - TexasAndroid 16:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder that I didn't make this all up myself. I'll get Jan Passion's thoughts on this. He made the first posting and others contributed before I worked on it.Philip W Bush 18:14, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]