Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Code of Iowa

Code of Iowa

This stub has no reason to exist on its own when it could have a perfectly good home under Iowa#Law and government. I've performed that demerging.

While we're here, maybe we should also look at Category:United States state legal codes, whose only other article is Official Code of Georgia which is of the same manner as this one, as well as Category:Iowa law which only contains this article.

Gotta love Wikipedia:Deadend pages. - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 21:26, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)

• Keep all. A legal code is a distinct thing within the topic of a jurisdiction's law that can be studied in its own right apart from the substantive content. The article on the legal code itself can describe the structure of the titles and subsections, the history of the code (when it was codified, major amendments/ renumbering), and how and where it is reported. There is plenty to write on state law. Don't try and stamp it out just because it's off to a small start. Postdlf 22:31, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • On the other hand, the stub did not provide any such information that demanded its own article. The information is all valuable, but not as its own stub. There is no point to a stub that perfectly fits within another article. - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 04:53, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)

• Keep. I really don't at all understand wanting to delete this one. It's a real thing. It affects the lives of the entire population of the state of Iowa. It has its own history. What's the reason to delete? If the information is already on another page, then redirect it. But delete? I don't get it. -Rholton 02:33, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • The article contains no such history and nothing that warrants its own article. I merged its entire contents into Iowa in the "Law and government" section where it fits perfectly. - [[User:KeithTyler|Keith D. Tyler [flame]]] 04:53, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Kieth, the topic warrants its own article. If we don't have the content for it now, then we add the stub tag. Even if the topic itself is too small to warrant its own article, then it is merged into another article and redirected. That's Wikipedia practice and policy. -Rholton 05:07, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)