Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Democratic Republic

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 delete as WP:OR.  Sandstein  06:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Democratic Republic

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The entire article reads as an opinon piece, composed entirely of original research, devoid of reliably sourced facts or assertions. Even the lists of 'democratic republic' countries are possibly redundant and replicated elsewhere; by the articles own text they are only related by their name, and thus possibly an indiscriminate list. MickMacNee (talk) 23:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Essentially an OR essay. The topic itself seems to me to be a flawed concept for an article. Things like at best might belong in a list rather than an article. Nsk92 (talk) 00:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. original research / essay.  Frank  |  talk  01:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete as per everyone above. --Doug Weller (talk) 07:54, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Commentjust to add that the use of the name 'Democratic Republic' tells you nothing about the country, all you can say perhaps, but probably with no RS, is that it is a feel-good part of a country's name.
• Keep This seems like a subject that deserves an article. I'd suggest reverting it way back to its third-oldest revision from 2005:[1] This would still need a little work, but it would make for a decent stub. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 09:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Comment - that rev is totally POV, unsourced, and still just a WP:DICTDEF, IMHO.  Frank  |  talk  11:58, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• Weakish keep, weakish mainly because my arguments in favour of keeping it suck. But delete the essay part, since it appears to be OR. Just retain as a list of entities that have used the the phrase in the name. There's likely been something written about this somewhere (how's that for an argument, eh ...?) and hopefully it could be expanded beyond just being a list of names. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 10:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmm-m, not terribly convincing. If kept, I think it would have to be a list, as in WP:LISTS, rather than an article. Having an article about a subject like this does not seem very different from having an article about people named Roger or about countries whose name begins with letter "A".

As far as I can tell, having "Democratic Republic" in the name of the country is purely decorative and largely accidental and, in a substantive sense, not any different from plain "Republic". I rather doubt that there is any research dealing with the distinction of having "Democratic Republic" rather than "Republic" in the name of the country, as a systematic topic. At the very least, no evidence that such research exists has been shown. I believe that is the main reason why the article is filled with OR. The subject matter is artificial. Nsk92 (talk) 12:09, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. No sources, entirely WP:OR except for the list. Quale (talk) 16:19, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. Any decent article which could be written with this title would be a dictionary definition rather than an encyclopedic article, as it would be explaining the use of this phrase rather than describing any particular real-world entity. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:13, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, original research. I also agree with others who argue that this article can never really be more than a dictdef once unencylopedic content is removed. Doctorfluffy (robe and wizard hat) 20:48, 16 May 2008 (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.