Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British property bubble

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} redirect to British residential property market, which is in effect a redirect to Residential property market in the United Kingdom (as the first term is a redirect to the second). Proto::► 13:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British property bubble

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Proposed for deletion by another editor, and relisted here to generate further discussion. The article currently has plenty of problems. On the other hand, a related article on United States housing bubble is a former featured article candidate, and could serve as a model for this one. I think that it could be improved with some work, so I'm going to say keep. Pathlessdesert 20:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Strong delete as I said in my Prod notice: "original research, completely unsourced so unverifiable. Virtually every sentence is stuffed with weasel words. From the title on down it violates a neutral point of view at every opportunity. While it might be possible to write a well sourced, neutral article about the British retail property market, you can't get there from here. Much better to delete this and start over". Over a month ago I left a message on the talk page warning that the article needed work and would be proposed for deletion, with no action taken since. I tried pruning it back to verifiable facts and got down to the title, which itself is deeply and irreversibly WP:POV. Gwernol 21:35, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• Merge anything neutral and verifiable (which probably isn't much) to British property market, or failing that delete it. We certainly shouldn't have an article here.--Doc^g 23:27, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I doubt the article title is correct, since the current status of UK house prices may not be a bubble at all. However, the general issue of current UK houseprices is not some non-notable imagining of a few complainers, it is frequently frontpage/national television news and there are several other issues stemming from it. Not least: 'kidults' (many young adults are struggling to move from the family home due to outrageous property prices), the average age of first-time buyers is now in the early thirties, the Deputy Prime Minister proposing extra home-building (when he's not having it off with his secretary that is) causing outcry at the potential loss of green-field sites in Southern England and key workers not able to find affordable housing and therefore being unable to fill teaching/nursing posts etc. etc. I'm quite sympathetic to the nom, the article is a pile of warnings and no references, weasel-wording is not acceptable full-stop. That said, this issue (in a properly named article) is no less worthy than any other which frequently appears and is discussed on countless television programmes, in countless magazines and in other media. Of course, 'countless' makes it even less forgivable that the article contains naff-all refernces. Just bear with me, I'll find some references or at least sources about the overall problem. QuagmireDog 05:29, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to British residential property market. There is plenty of potential for someone who knows the subject to write a great article. This is not a great article, and would be best served by concentrating effort in one place. As it's a plausible search term, leave a redirect. Eludium-q36 10:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect Per Eludium. After seeing the other article they're both very similar. QuagmireDog 02:30, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect — per Eludium Wizardman 17:21, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep I don't see the point of redirecting to an article that has barely any content, particularly when the US market does have a specific housing bubble article; people would just end up merging the content of this article with the generic UK property market article. That said, the article as it stands could certainly do with a lot of tidying and elaboration. Mark Grant 20:35, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - bubble referred to is speculative. Following deletion, redirect could be created... Addhoc 23:03, 14 January 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.