Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myanmar Wide Web

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. Cbrown1023 01:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Myanmar Wide Web

Nominated for AfD by Okkar with reason: "I would like to nominate this article to be deleted or replaced appropiately, unless it can be varified. All the information I have provided above [Note - on the article's Talk page] can be varified directly with BCT by calling up BCT sales office or generally ask Myanmar internet users (not the ones from outside of myanmar) in general." This is a procedural nomination - my opinion is Neutral. Tevildo 17:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is also worth noting that he contests whether the subject of the article exists at all, otherwise it just looks like he is asking for references. Recury 19:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This sounds like a content dispute. Further research should go into this by editors better at evaluating truth from fiction in subjects related Myanmar, but I see no reason to pull the article down entirely or replace it. A call from an editor to BCT would not be appropriate under WP:NOR. I have tagged the article as having a factual accuracy dispute. skrshawk ( Talk | Contribs ) 03:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just to make it clear, I am disputing both content and the name of the article, especially the name because such intranet never existed in Myanmar and I do believe I have made that point quite clear in my contribution to the talk page, so I dont know where this "sounds like a content dispute" comes from. Okkar 21:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep "Myanmar Wide Web" should be clarified to state that it was a term dubbed by Reporters sans frontières to describe the government-administered intranet in Myanmar, and it should be expanded to described exclusively the term's origin, basics on how the intranet functions, etc. All other information should be removed and placed in the article named Internet in Myanmar. --Hintha 06:57, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

So it appears that the name "Myanmar Wide Web" was a creation of reporters, as opposed to have actually existed. While I am not discredting "Reporters sans frontiéres", according to Hintha it is worth noting that the name "Myanmar Wide Web" was just a pure fictional creation as opposed to actual existance. We must not paddle what the reporters write as "facts", especially it was just a fictional name created just to sensationalise the article. This is a very dangerous ground we are working on now, if we are not careful, we will end up paddling whatever we read in the news paper, including and not limited to, yellow press. Surely that is not what Wikipedia is about. Okkar 09:54, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How can this be notable if it doesnt exist? Okkar 08:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

keep per Skrshawk and Hintha. Or Merge as none of these articles has much text, might be better as sections of a larger article. Chris 08:23, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
'keep probably notable in any case, but certainly notable for the political implications. Hintha's comments should be used in revising it. DGG 02:22, 11 January 2007 (UTC)DGG 02:23, 11 January 2007 (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.