Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Size of Empires

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 19:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Size of Empires

Not suitable for Wikipedia: amateurish original research, hideously oversimplified, largely unverifiable (unless one were to write a master's thesis on the subject), unencyclopaedic, soapbox implicitly promoting British imperialism, largely redundant with List of largest empires.

The brainchild of a known vandal on record as saying things like, "The Spanish Empire pales in comparason to the GREAT BRITISH EMPIRE! RULE BRITANNIA."[1]

This, I fear, is beyond cleanup. Nothing can be salvaged from the page as it's been created, and with the content and direction it's been given. If more level-headed editors wish to tackle the subject in the future, I'd be all for it. Albrecht 20:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom --Arm 22:11, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Violates WP:NOR. Consign it to the same fate as the British Empire—the dustbin of history. Slowmover 22:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, OR. Moreover, I thought USA Today was a newspaper, not an empire --Deville (Talk) 03:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - per nom and Deville --Ajdz 05:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Since you put it like that I have to agree. However, it is not original research - the figures have come from somewhere, although no source is cited, and were simply pulled together (which is a permissable necessity). Most historical articles are oversimplified, impossible to verify or could be seen to be subjective if you hold a contrary opinion like Slowmover here. But... on its own this is not encyclopaedic. I may look at the idea again in the future if I can find a reputable source and an article that would benefit from graphs like this. Wiki-Ed 09:19, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom Robdurbar 11:09, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep this page and continue to update it. My students are using it to study empires as well as to understand how to evaluate and compare information. The discussions and corrections are equally important. This is a new medium and, as such, we would like to continue to use it in a new way. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gkraffaele (talk • contribs).

Note: Above is user's first and only edit to Wikipedia. Albrecht 20:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, per WP:NOR. — TheKMan^talk 23:37, 30 April 2006 (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.