Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Communist Movement

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 Merge. Note that I haven't gone and done the merge, I'm leaving that to the experts. Stifle (talk) 00:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Communist Movement

The article World Communist Movement should really be redirected to History of Communism, since that's what it is actually about, but User:Soman, who appears to be a communist of some sort, won't permit this, so I am forced to nominate it for deletion. There is no such organisation as the World Communist Movement and most of the article is a general (not very good) history of communism since the dissolution of the Comintern. Adam 14:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)"

• Comment: I oppose the deletion of this article, since it is not just a general history of communism, but about a specific current (which is also generally seen as the mainstream current of communism). However, if it is to be deleted, then I'd rather suggest incorporing it into communism directly. --Soman 15:26, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge: Having read the article, it really ought to be merged as suggested. If kept, it certainly needs a clean up. While it contains many statements of fact, which ought not be lost, there seems to be a little too much analysis (and POV) going on.Fluit 20:09, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

• I'm not disputing that the article contains some (though not much) information. I'm disputing that the information belongs in an article of this title, which clearly creates the false impression that there is an organisation called the World Communist Movement. Adam 23:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per Adam. Ambi 01:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge or delete, per nom. Simon Dodd 03:25, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge/delete, same reasoning. Dr. Trey 04:33, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment How many votes constitute an acceptable consensus? Adam 22:21, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

• A two thirds majority over seven days, though it can be closed early if there's overwhelming consensus (which there doesn't appear to be here, at least not yet). -Colin Kimbrell 01:29, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

• There does appear to be an overwhelming consensus that the article in its current form should cease to exist, the only question is the remedy (merge or delete), which seems fairly easy to resolve: identify any useful information in this article which is absent from History of Communism, delete World Communist Movement and leave cleaning up the material to editors interested in History of Communism.Simon Dodd 18:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom.--cj | talk 03:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete if merge is unsuccessful. -- noosphere 22:42, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete/Merge per Adam.--Jersey Devil 22:48, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

So far we have a 100% vote for deletion or merger. I will wait until Friday (7 days from the original listing), then do as Simon has suggested above: transfer any useful material to History of Communism (although I hate to think what I will find when I read that article, given Wikipedia's very poor record on communism-related articles), and then redirect this article there. Adam 15:36, 5 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.