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The result was move to Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Index of Malawi-related articles. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (Message me) 12:56, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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This old list article seems to be trying to replicate the job of a Category. In addition there are literally hundreds of unverifiable redlinks. Simply inappropriate and of little use, as far as I can see. Sionk (talk) 22:24, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Outline of Malawi and add whatever content is in the first one to the second one, minus the massive amount of redlinks. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 22:51, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unnecessary article list, superseded by Category:Malawi. Don't see a point in redirecting because the title is not a phrase commonly used to search with. Funny ^Pika! 23:46, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I agree it's probably not a lot of use in article space given that it is mostly redlinks and Outline of Malawi serves this purpose better. However can things like this be moved into project sub-pages as there seems to be a lot that might be of use to something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi? Keresaspa (talk) 02:23, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment As I noted on the talk page nearly five years ago, all the entries have articles in the Historical Dictionary of Malawi, so there's at least one usable source for every redlink. Looking at Lists of country-related topics, I can't really tell what the current fashion is for this kind of list. Deleting redlinks seems a little head-in-the-sand about how many articles are still missing... Stan (talk) 13:19, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good point! I've left a comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. Sionk (talk) 14:05, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment I've strike'd out my redirect !vote pending resolution on how to handle this given the comments above. I recognize that if those titles came from a reliable source there is value in keeping them around. The question would be how, exactly. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 20:10, 30 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:40, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Move to Wikipeida namespace under an appropriate WikiProject such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Index of Malawi-related articles per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists#Development. KTC (talk) 13:24, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This makes sense to me. I didn't realise these 'non-article' lists existed. There is at least one editor who is slowly working through some of the Malawi redlinks and creating solid articles, so moving the list to Wikipedia namespace would be of benefit. As the nominator, I'll happily withdraw my AfD on this basis. Sionk (talk) 13:38, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've retracted my delete vote based on the above comments. I'll not stand in the way of someone who'll create articles from the list. Funny ^Pika! 23:08, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - I've boldly copied this to Wikipedia namespace, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Index of Malawi-related articles, per the rationale of User:KTC and others above. This would promote the creation of articles on Wikipedia. I have also placed a link and information on the project's main page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi#Articles. Northamerica1000^(talk) 05:43, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Index of Malawi-related articles, per my comment above. Northamerica1000^(talk) 05:50, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• Why on earth would you copy and paste move the page instead of doing a proper move? KTC (talk) 12:29, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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