Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anarchism (theory)

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The result of the debate was delete. Ingoolemo ^talk 04:31, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)

[edit] Anarchism (theory)

• By its authors own admission: "Anarchism (theory) is just a backup of Anarchism (anti-state), in case the latter gets deleted. We may need it in coming edit wars." Anarchism (anti-state), to begin with, was a fork page created in an attempt to solve an edit war and is up for deletion. --Tothebarricades 21:20, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Note: The other VfD is at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Anarchism (anti-state) and Anarchism (socialist). --cesarb 22:08, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. It's a better and more balanced article than Anarchism, and it's not locked up. What the creator's intentions were is irrelevant.RJII 21:46, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Note: The above vote is being made by one the people causing the edit war in question. --Tothebarricades 01:01, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Note The above comment is being made by one of the people causing the edit war in question, as well. RJII 02:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Blatant attempt to game the system. --Delirium 21:47, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

This is faulty reasoning. The intentions behind the creation are irrelevant. RJII 21:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. POV fork of a POV fork. This is getting ridiculous. --cesarb 22:07, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Overwrite the current "Anarchism" article with the Anarchism (theory) article. The current "Anarchism" article sucks. Hogeye 22:30, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Note: The above vote is being made by one the people causing the edit war in question. --Tothebarricades 01:02, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Note: The above note was written by one the people causing the edit war in question - the same [human excretory orifice] that initiated this deletion process. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hogeye (talk • contribs) 01:14, 20 Jun 2005

• Delete, we do not want competing articles. RickK 22:35, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, redundant. Christopher Parham (talk) 23:01, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)
• Delete per RickK. -- Jonel | Speak 23:17, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hey [weenie washer], quit fucking with my prose. --Hogeye 02:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• I've got to say Delete, even if it gets my capitalist "comrades" (grin) angry at me... these multiple forks of the Anarchism article aren't doing anybody any good, and the title "Anarchism (theory)" is pretty meaningless... is there supposed to then be another article "Anarchism (practice)" to balance it? This isn't contributing to a sensible taxonomy of anarchism-related articles here. Let's get it down to a few articles with sensible titles, and then try and see if we can actually (somehow) come to a reasonable consensus about what content is in them, but don't keep multiplying senseless articles in order to get "our" faction's preferred content in somewhere. *Dan* 23:31, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Dtobias> "... is there supposed to then be another article "Anarchism (practice)?"

I had in mind Anarchism (popular). A lot of people want to use the popular faddish meaning instead of the standard dictionary meaning. Hogeye 02:24, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• When Anarchism (anti-state) is deleted (and I think it will be) speedy this as recreation of deleted material. -R. fiend 01:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  That is a bit of a stretch, since Anarchism (theory) was not created after Anarchism (anti-state) is deleted, and so cannot be a recreation... --cesarb 01:54, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

  • But it is the recreation of an article, and after the original article is deleted it will be the recreation of an article that has been deleted. Chronology isn't important here, content is. Otherwise someone could recreate an article under a slightly different name minutes before it's deletion by VfD vote, and have to go through the long VfD process again instead of being the speedy it should be. The vote on the content of the Anarchism (anti-state) should stand on any article with exactly the same content. -R. fiend 02:35, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

    • Why, exactly, does the article have to be deleted before a recreation of it is speediable? Especially this one, which has no use if the other article is kept but will be a recreation of deleted material is the other one is not? -- Jonel | Speak 02:58, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect and protect to prevent re-forking. -Sean Curtin 01:52, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

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