Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patriarchal marriage

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 09:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Patriarchal marriage

Non-standard usage. Consists entirely of factual inaccuracies and non-neutral POV. Certainly, patriarchal marriage is a commonly used phrase, but to say that it is refers simply to couples who call themselves "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" instead of "Ms. and Mr. Jane Doe", as this article seems to suggest, is absurdly inadequate. I suppose it's conceivable that a good article with this name could exist in the future, but the current content is all junk. (Taken along with its sister article Matriarchal marriage, which I will nominate shortly, it is also—and I say this as a feminist—sexist bullshit, but don't get me started.) —Caesura^(t) 15:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

• I don't know I took about 15 minutes trying to come up with an accurate definition, but I couldn't because all internet pages that discuss patriarchal marriage discuss it as if the reader is intimately familiar with the concept. Perhaps someone else can define it and save the article? AdamBiswanger1 15:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, without prejudice to a new article being created someday that isn't inherently POV and original research as this one is. In the current article, there is not one sentence that is without a biased statement or argument. Agent 86 20:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - You mean you only keep what the masses want? These poor people have worked on this article! Trunk 18:28, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Note to closing admin: User has 16 Wikipedia edits, of which 14 are AfD-related. User has voted "keep" on every AfD discussion s/he has participated in, except the one s/he started, and her/his reasons are copied and pasted from one AfD discussion to another. —Caesura^(t) 18:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom PLUS "no original research" Rklawton 01:40, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - problems with OR and verifiability, bias, misleading inaccuracy. --HJMG 07:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete... this is really trying hard to pass as a legitimate article, but it's extremely WP:OR and WP:POV with no semblance of WP:RS. For over 2000 years, patriarchal marriages were the only way to go. Now, people are becoming more aware of matriarchal marriages and this type of marriage is becoming extinct. What? Sez who? --Kinu ^t/_c 20:59, 18 July 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.