Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thai immigration to the United States

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was keep. There were several suggestions that the article should be merged. Joyous (talk) July 4, 2005 02:23 (UTC)

Thai_immigration_to_the_United_States

What is the point of this page? Thai immigrants in US are relatively SMALL number compared to other nationals. If you want to talk about In-Chan, then creat a page about them. There is no Thai official record about Mr. He Thien whom the author claimed to be the first student to immigrate from Thailand. The number of Thai immigrants to US that the author provided does not have any reference. If you want to put this page on, you have to do more in-depth with reliable FACTS, not something you guess. And again, what is the point of talking about Thai immigrants in US which are relatively VERY SMALL number compared to other nationals. Dhanakorn 00:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep or alternatively Merge with Immigration to the United States, Thai immigration in my opinion is noteworthy. Falphin 00:33, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States, useful information. --Sn0wflake 00:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States. Immigration is immigration, and this has good info. Kevin/Last1in 00:56, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Perfectly encyclopedic and notable topic, with potential for expansion. Only as a second choice, Merge as above. Xoloz 01:51, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Any dubious facts can be verified or corrected. Meanwhile, this seems to be an encyclopedic enough topic to stand on its own IMHO. A merge with immigration to the United States would be acceptable but it would seem somewhat out of place to me since the rest of the article talks about immigration more broadly without focusing very much on particular nationalities. — Ливай | ☺ 02:33, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States. Assuming this information is true, it is worthwhile. CanadianCaesar 02:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Or perhaps create a single page detailing similar stats for say Asian immigration to the United States --Luspari 03:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge with immigration to the United States, where there is a section that briefly mentions various particular nationalities. -Willmcw 03:45, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep in whatever form, valid topic. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:53, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
• Keep IMO, Immigration to the United States should be about laws, controversy, and major trends (slave importation, the Ellis Island waves, etc.), whereas details about immigration by place of origin should be separated, as this has been. The Literate Engineer 06:00, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This article has the scope to be expanded and would probably become too large for Immigration to the United States. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 06:52, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Useful article and the Immigration to the US page would become bulky quickly if it includes detailed info on each nationality. Capitalistroadster 06:53, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as above. Radiant_>|< 08:47, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States. --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 09:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States. JamesBurns 10:02, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as explained above. --Jyril 10:05, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per The Literate Engineer and Ливай's comments. May need some work and checking of sources etc., but this doesn't mean the article is not worthy of inclusion. Qwghlm 10:32, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The main article should be an overview. Breakout articles are essential to stop major articles becoming too big to be useful to the average reader, and this one has made a good start. CalJW 11:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but turn it into a more general article on Thai-Americans. - SimonP 12:26, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per above votes. But if this results in a massive list of countries' immigration rates over time, then reestablish the article. -Splash 15:59, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep! --Phroziac (talk) 18:02, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States.--Poli 19:35, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)
• Keep. Cleanup as necessary. VfD is not wikipedia cleanup. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:28, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and Cleanup. Wikipedia is not paper. Wikiacc (talk) 20:54, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Nothing wrong with the concept. Stilgar135 23:04, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States. Notability justifying a separate article not established. Kaibabsquirrel 03:11, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, expandable and noteworthy. - Mustafaa 03:14, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Literate Engineer. carmeld1 03:27, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States, or possibly Move to Siamese American or Thai American
• Delete Sounds like Thai promotion - slightly POV.--GrandCru 21:54, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Immigration to the United States--Sara22 23:55, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Clearly noteworthy, should not be merged into Immigration to the United States where it would be somewhat incongruous; per SimonP this should probably be remade slightly into a Thai American article.--Pharos 29 June 2005 05:26 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be placed on a related article talk page, if one exists; in an undeletion request, if it does not; or below this section.