Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/"is not a democracy"

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was merge with democracy. No consensus to delete, but unanimous consensus that the article should not remain as it is. There is a majority of "delete"-votes but Wikipedia is not a democracy... Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "is not a democracy"

"'is not a democracy' is a common phrase." Well, so is "is not a monarchy," "is not a dictatorship," "is not a fascist state," and (my personal favorite) "is not a fundamentalist Hindu theocracy ruled by green Martians in feather headdresses." My point is, the article is supposed to be about a common phrase, but if it accomplishes that it's only a (strange) dicdef. This isn't Wiktionary or Wikiquote territory, and it certainly isn't Wikipedia territory. Just delete. Dmcdevit·t 03:06, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete for reasons above. —Seselwa 03:26, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. "is not a Keep." Fernando Rizo T/C 03:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No need for an article on this. --Apyule 07:30, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Democracy. It's a common enough political statement that it deserves some clarification. — RJH 16:12, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons above. --Sleepyhead81 17:03, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Democracy, as per RJH's statement.--Frag 20:57, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge - if votes approve, I'll merge it into the Democracy aticle. ~ Dpr 23:02, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
• This "is not a keep"; I can give it at most only a very weak merge into Democracy. But note WP:WWIN#Wikipedia_is_not_a_democracy. Barno 01:13, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into Democracy. The point is interesting enough to retain, but isn't meritorious of its own article. Tobycat 06:06, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Bare Merge into Democracy. The article only just escapes deletion. Avalon 11:48, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia is not a Democracy, thus we cannot continue this line of thought--Wikipedia_talk:Sandbox 18:54, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Vonfraginoff 14:15, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Democracy but only with a lot of clarification and cleaning up to make it more than just a simple dicdef Zaw061 14:30, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - not worth merging. Dottore So 20:42, 10 August 2005 (UTC)Dottoreso
• Delete per Dottore So. QuartierLatin 1968 20:13, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Dmcdevit. Michael 04:29, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete—This phrase can be defined simply by negating democracy. --Tysto 21:05, 2005 August 13 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.