Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Potential Superpowers - Russia

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 Delete, I am going to be bold and delete all these redirects to clear out this day's AfD log. I took a look at each redirect, and they were all a result of page moves: there is no meaningful article history, so deleting these redirects doesn't break any GFDL requirements, and since the target of these redirects will likely be deleted via AfD in a few days anyway, I don't see any harm in deleting these redirects. Deathphoenix ʕ 14:20, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Potential Superpowers - Russia

One of many articles (5 in total, also nominated here) all redirecting to Russia as a major power. The titles of these articles are all variations on the theme of Russia becoming a superpower. None of them have any content and none are significantly linked to. The Russia as a major power article is itself fairly dubious (WP:OR), although I don't propose to deal with that here. But the Russia (note, Russia - not USSR) as a superpower thesis seems to be entirely OR.

Given this, the fact that they are all redirects (some are multiple redirects), and the fact that they are not linked to from other articles, I suggest their removal.

For the above reasons I am also including the following pages in this nomination:

• Emerging Superpowers—Russia
• Russia as a re-emerging superpower
• Potential Superpowers—Russia
• Russia as an emerging superpower

Xdamr^talk 17:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete all per nomination, Xdamr^talk 18:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment, no opinion just yet, but this was AfD'd with a whole slew of other articles a few months back that were (well sourced) speculation about a whole myriad of countries from China to Brazil emerging as superpowers. I'm not suggesting all of those be included in a mass nom, but if this gets deleted the rest of them should probably be brought for individual AfDs.--Isotope23 20:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

I've left notes on the talk pages of the following articles, suggesting afd's on grounds of OR:

• Russia as a major power - redirected from Potential Superpowers - Russia
• Japan as a major power - redirected from Potential Superpowers - Japan
• Potential Superpowers - Brazil

I envisage making the nominations within the next day or so, depending on reaction.

Incidentally, I'd appreciate guidance on whether this would be better dealt with as an RFD case.

Xdamr^talk 20:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

• Close and move to RfD, since these seem to be defective redirects and not actual articles. --Coredesat talk 21:41, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment The target of these redirects, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russia as a major power, will be eligible for closing in a day or to, and is heading towards 'delete' at time of writing. The closing of this AfD might as well wait until then - there's no point in removing AfD notices from articles that are about to be deleted. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 12:26, 6 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.