Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Admiralty administration

Admiralty administration

This article about the administration of the British Admiralty is from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. It is also hopelessly out of date. It is about the current (1911) state of affairs, so there's no good historical information, either. There might be some information that is still accurate, but verifying the article, statement by statement, does not seem worthwhile. I have uploaded and updated many 1911 EB articles, but some are better off deleted. -- Kjkolb 11:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Oppose - this article applies to the Admiralty at a time when then the Royal Navy is possibly its highest point, the most powerful naval force in the world with the building of the modern Dreadnought-type battleships and before the rise of the aeroplane. The article describes posts that are referenced in biographies of senior British naval figures (on their rise through the Admiralty). GraemeLeggett 12:37, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't dispute this. :-) However, an encyclopedia should be up to date and not consist of snapshots of various times. The text will still be available, as there is a project that is working on making an online version of the encyclopedia. -- Kjkolb 13:15, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

If you mean wikisource, then is it not a move with a soft redirect and and not a deletion?GraemeLeggett 17:11, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if Wikisource:WikiProject 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica would want to have this article transferred. They may have their own system of proofreading and such, but I asked them. -- Kjkolb 04:30, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Delete I was hoping that I'd want to keep this article but it's not notable as it merely refers to the breakdown of administrative and bookkeeping roles. It's basically a bit of the Civil service at a particular point in time. HM Treasury doesn't refer to it's internal governance structures from various points in time for example. MLA 15:48, 27 February 2006 (UTC)