Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Information Technology Audit - Regulation

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The result of the debate was Keep. Information Technology Audit - Regulation has been merged to Information Technology Audit. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:36, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Information Technology Audit - Regulation and Information Technology Audit

"THIS PAGE WILL BE ACTIVE BY JUNE 6, 2005". Well, maybe. In the meantime, odd categorization. The User seems to be trying to use Wikipedia for their own purposes. Information Technology Audit is mainly nothing but a collection of red links which the Uer is planning on expanding, apparently. Rick K 22:41, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Remove it. Please review "Audit explosion" by Michael Power. It is freely available at:

www.demos.com.uk. It is the best view of the audit problem.

KEEP: RickK, a number of months ago I noticed an absence of information on Wikipedia regarding Information Technology Audit. I teach a Seattle University class on IT Audit and asked my students to post content for their final project. This page is not intended to suit an inappropriate purpose. It was merely intended to provide additional content to the community. My students are more than happy to modify the content, present it in an alternative manner, or make other changes to better reflect the editorial style that the Wikipedia editors would like to see. Please feel free to provide any guidance you think might help. I would ask all that visit this page to vote to KEEP the page. I would also like to understand what criteria might have triggered the request for deletion. We should encourage new users with guidance, as opposed to quickly shutting down a new initiative. Thanks in advance for your help. --Asparks1805 03:52, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I would keep the article on Information Technology Audit since that is a valid topic and what is there now is a legitimate stub. If someone uses the space for his own purposes, rest assured that editors will cut out the offending material. As to the article on Information Technology Audit - Regulation, my initial reaction is that it is a narrow branch of the main topic and doesn't need its own page. I would rather wait a week and see what develops and perhaps, in the meantime, help move the editor in a proper direction so he doesn't waste his energy. - DS1953 00:00, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Pause, keep for now I suggest that we contact the user and ask them politely about their plans for these articles. As far as I can see, both of them could be made into good encyclopedia articles, and without any evidence to the contrary, I'll assume that the user is planning on turning them into good encyclopedia articles. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:09, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
Userfy since it's all under construction, and let's find out what the editor has planned for these. It looks like it's going to be a miniature website within Wikipedia if it all gets fleshed out as-is – a bit odd. AиDя01D TALK 02:13, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
Let us just keep both these articles for the time being as they are both good topics and it doesn't seem that the user is trying to write for his/her own purposes. Let us see what changes the user makes by the 6th of June. I feel that it is not going to become a miniature website on its own within wikipedia. There are millions in this world involved with Information Technology Audit and it is a topic that is related to many aspects of IT, so it should not be isolated. I hope the user is going to have some really useful information on IT Audit in this article. - Cassim 03:41, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Information Technology Audit for reasons above. Keep for now: Information Technology Audit - Regulation—if it turns out to be only a page of links, it can easily be integrated into Information Technology Audit under the Regulation sub-topic. DialUp 16:43, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
PLEASE KEEP - This IT Audit page is intended to be a miniature website posted by a graduate IT Audit class in Seattle, Washington, USA as a final project. The professor saw an absence of IT Audit information on Wikipedia and proposed it as a place to post the student's final articles. He hoped to better populate Wiki with IT Audit information and get the students involved in IT community communications. We (students)are learning Wiki-markup and trying our best to get all the articles posted and organized in a professional manner for our final due date of June 6, 2005. Please have patience and understand that we have no intention of using this site for any reason beyond what Wiki stands for. Thank you all for taking the time to watch for misuse of Wikipedia. Juliette--67.183.13.232 01:22, 30 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Please see my comment at the related discussion, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Backup Systems and Recovery. AиDя01D TALK EMAIL 21:31, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

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