Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fifth world nations

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 04:06, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fifth world nations

Cesidio Tallani and his micronation pals are back. This stuff was expunged from the Fifth World article when that was posted to VfD way back in the day; articles on Cesidio's various self-applied laws were deleted via VfD some time ago. This is basically recreation of deleted content, but is probably different enough that we might as well put it through a proper AfD before we delete it. Incidentally, according to an article by Mr Tallani, there is now a sixth world. When will it end? -Sean Curtin 06:46, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Apparently micronations reject the Antarctic Treaty for example. Will Sealand claim the South Pole? Inquiring minds want to know. Capitalistroadster 08:47, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Seems to be OR, and crank-vanity. --Squiddy 11:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete micronotable vanity, per Capitalistroadster. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 13:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I really wish micronation vanity/nonsense could be speedied. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete article contente, make it a Redirect to Micronations. I must say, this nomination led me to the Sealand article, which was interesting. I want my own fort too! With a rebel goverment trying to take it over! But NO GIRLS ALLOWED lol. Herostratus 14:34, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, do not redirect because this is a neologism which we should not be promoting. — Haeleth Talk 19:29, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nonnotable crankery, advertising, agenda promotion. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Hang on... (comment) I remember looking through an old 1980's geography textbook once. It defind First through Fifth world countries as such:

• First: Wetern nations, (USA, UK, etc)
• Second: Communist nations (USSR, etc)
• Third: Poor countries
• Fourth: Really poor countries
• Fifth: OPEC.

So, in the sense I know it as, its not a neologism. If anything, its an old-logism, that fell out of use the same time as all but First and Thrid World did, (and they apparently dropped out of official use soon after). Saberwyn - 11:18, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

If you can find a source for it, that would be a good addition to the Fifth World disambiguation page. (I'm leery of adding anything unsourced to that page because micronationalists love to sneak stuff like this in there.) -Sean Curtin 06:37, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

• • I'm never going to find that textbook again. My class was asked on the last day of term to help clean out the textbook storeroom, and these books got canned. Saberwyn - 09:49, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete per Wile E Heresiarch. Stifle 23:58, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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.