Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moral economy

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The result of the debate was keep. - Mailer Diablo 13:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moral economy

Delete. POV original research (+website spam) part of a POV series of articles uploaded by User:Roger Hicks. Author has reverted others' attempts to dePOV. --IByte 17:16, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

We can keep this improved version if the Utopian moral economies section is axed or severely rewritten to conform to WP:NPOV. --IByte 16:04, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete OR/POV/WP is not a soapbox. --Etacar11 17:40, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep cleaned up version, as long as it stays NPOV. --Etacar11 05:16, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Please keep! The concept of a "moral market" is very important and deserves an article. The points that I (the author) am making are important and deserve to remain for a while to give those concerned with environmental and sustainability issues a chance to read and appreciate them. It needs to be read and understood in the context of my other recent contributions --Roger Hicks 17 Aug.

  Sorry, Wikipedia is not a soapbox. If you can cite published works that discuss this concept under this name, please do so. Gazpacho

• Delete, original research, spam, vanity. Sdedeo 18:01, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete if they need to read your original research, find somewhere else to post it. --Habap 18:03, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep now that it is focused on stuff that is not OR. I love it when the result of a VfD is a re-shaped article that is useful. --Habap 14:24, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete OR and POV. Jaxl | talk 18:43, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for every imaginable reason. Paul 00:02, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. -- DS1953 05:08, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep after thorough cleanup. The concept of a "moral economy" is indeed noteworthy; it gets an extended discussion in Joseph Heath's The Efficient Society. It's a standard term used in economics and anthropology for the social interplay between moral ideas and economic activity. Google yields more than 54,000 hits. Smerdis of Tlön 14:31, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Assuming it got saved, have briefly expanded the article with some stubbish discussion of these points. Agree that it still needs serious cleanup. Smerdis of Tlön 14:55, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep for these reasons. It is a noteworthy concept, but does need cleanup. I like Smerdis' efforts so far. Jeff Worthington 15:04, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep now that it's cited (although it might need more work). Gazpacho 02:02, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep thanks to Smerdis's work -- allow it to develop further. JimR 05:51, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but cut the last section on 'Utopian Moral Economy.' The rest could be useful if cleaned up and expanded - User:Brodie
• Keep new version. - ulayiti (talk) 19:48, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: I don't think we should keep the external link to spaceship-earth.org on this one (mostly per WP:NOT). --IByte 14:25, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment This still reads like a collection of viewpoints; it does not come together and become encyclopedic. Regarding the 54,000 Google hits, there are plenty of two word combinations-"moral economy" being one of them-that would have lots of search results but aren't worthy of inclusion. Paul 16:14, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

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