Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Democracy in the United States
- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was Delete. Tiptoety talk 00:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Democracy in the United States (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)
Badly-summarised essay which is actually entirely about the Declaration of Independence, which already has an article. The only information it adds are unsourced claims about certain details being "generally acknowledged". McGeddon (talk) 09:02, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, reads like a copypaste of a high schooler's essay. <eleland/talkedits> 09:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - it adds nothing to the existing United States Declaration of Independence article. JohnCD (talk) 10:27, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nomination. --Bonadea (talk) 11:20, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Oh, great it's another essay and/or schoolwork. In vio of WP:NOT#WEBSPACE, WP:NOT#PUBLISHER and mayhaps WP:OR, WP:RS (most of the stuff is "generally acknowledged"?) Doc StrangeTelepathic MessagesStrange Frequencies 15:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Obliterate - Article is an essay and complete WP:OR -- Pmedema (talk) 18:34, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as an essay. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote this already, only better and with a different title Mandsford (talk) 22:17, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:OR. Esradekan Gibb "Talk" 03:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge -- I propose we merge some of this article to the Declaration of Independence. The portion being merged explains Lincoln's understanding of the phrase "all men are created equal".Bphagan (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 18:32, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: Per personal essay. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 16:12, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:SYNTH and the reasons enunciated above. Bearian (talk) 20:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.