Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cold War 2

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 05:46, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cold War 2

Delete Original research (if even that and not just some non-notable editorial). PhilipO 21:05, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. The current article is exactly as PhilipO describes it, but I'm not sure that no article could be used here. "Cold War 2" and "Cold War II" have both been quite often used in two ways that I know of. The first is to talk about the Cold War during the Reagan years (that is, it is used to periodize the Cold War into Cold War, Detente, Cold War II) (Paul Edward's book The Closed World from MIT Press does this quite a lot). The second use is somewhat as the original author implies — as a way of saying that the war on terror is the second Cold War. I think an article with this title could be made into something encyclopedic if it was about these two terms and what they are trying to imply in terms of periodization and history (along the lines, perhaps, of World War III), but the current text of the article is worth deleting. Just my two cents. --Fastfission 21:16, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Excellent points by Fastfission -- agree that the current content should be Deleted unless rewritten along the lines presented above. Christopher Parham (talk) 22:08, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This thing should have "ORIGINAL RESEARCH" stamped in bright red letters over it. If someone, if possible, wants to write a verifiable and sourced distillation of this phrase being actually used, let them do so after the rubble of this article has been cleared away. --Calton | Talk 00:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete OR --Rogerd 03:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Better covered by war on terror, and economic articles or india/china, and mil articles on china. Zotel - the Stub Maker 01:52, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Just speculation. --SuperDude 19:32, 17 October 2005 (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.