Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Localism (politics)

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 KEEP. -Splash^talk 02:39, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Localism (politics)

Original research / soapbox

Unfortunately has been spammed into other articles as well, which may have an effect on google.

• Delete --Victim of signature fascism | help remove electoral corruption 13:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, 480k googles and you claim they're all spam? Article has a source. Rewrite to fix POV as necessary, and don't make WP:POINT nominations. Radiant_>|< 14:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Article provides sources. Second item from a Google search is this article by George Monbiot from the Guardian so it is a real political position. [1]. If POV problems, should be cleaned up rather than deleted. Capitalistroadster 23:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Has anyone actually nominated this?. In any case, keep; very bad article but definitely an encyclopedic topic. The Land 23:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Localism as a term is a widespread one, however there is neither in the article nor in the sources provided here or there evidence of the use of the term as a specific political philosophy. The references in the article do not even use the term; the Guardian link above defines it solely as "the proposal that everything which can be produced locally should be produced locally" without further discussion of the other issues that 'localists believe'. I don't think this article should be deleted (although it's a close call), but it does need to be considerably rewritten to emphasize that this is an amorphous set of philosophies that may or may not include the positions that the current article seems to imply are universal. In any case, it needs citations that link the term to the ideas, otherwise it is Original Research and should be deleted. Ziggurat 23:42, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This article presents Localism in its purist form. The artile is worded though in a POV fashion and I have taken it upon myself to rewrite much of this over the next few days. Polzsa 23:45, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Even if the article content is cr*p, the subject merits inclusion SP-KP 00:49, 30 January 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.