Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Origin of the Franks

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 was delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:42, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of the Franks

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Admitted personal essay. Unreferenced. No reason why any relevant information can't be placed in Franks. Slac speak up! 03:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. I think most of the relevant information is already in the article on the Franks. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 03:53, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Relevant data can be added to existing articles. Philippe Beaudette 05:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per above. MER-C 11:59, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• Question Where is the "admitted" aspect of this being a personal essay? Nothing on the page's discussion and the only comment on the creators talk page is that the text is his (which is simply a statement that he wrote the article, something we already know). I completely agree this reads like an essay (heck, the guy uses "I feel that politics are involved here" in para. 1), just wondering where the evidence is before I vote. The topic is certainly encyclopedic, even if this current article is in horribly poor form. -Markeer 15:00, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, and commend the Franks article to User:Michael042. Might suggest that the closing admin may also want to move this text to a subpage off the author's user page. The topic is certainly worthy, and this is certainly a worthy effort towards a valuable contribution, but more information ought to be added to the article in chief before splitting off the origin as a separate article. - Smerdis of Tlön 15:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. It is an essay written in first-person with no sources. Fundamentaldan 19:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete-Essays don't really belong in mainspace and no sources. --TeckWiz^Talk Contribs_@ 00:50, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. This is an essay without any references. johanthon 20:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and move to userspace subpage as suggested above or off-wiki. Right now the article does read like a personal essay, and one that appears to engage in speculation/original research as well. It's an interesting topic, and with considerable reworking and citation of sources, this article might better fit into Wikipedia mainspace. --Kyoko 20:55, 5 February 2007 (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.