Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gun politics worldwide
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- 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. - Mailer Diablo 09:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Gun politics worldwide
Vacuous article. All it contains is a table listing some countries (not all countries in the world), and whether they "have gun control" and if so, since what year. Of course, this table is a complete oversimplification of the issues; gun control is not as simple as a yes/no, and there are no sources. Merging is proposed to gun politics, but this would be bad because the article contains nothing worth keeping. Gun politics should perhaps be written with a more worldwide view, but that won't be assisted by including this table. Mangojuicetalk 12:59, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete as it has no useful information to merge. As you say, a simple yes/no on "gun control" is far too simplistic and won't help in writing a more worldwide Gun politics article. Possibly a well-referenced List of gun politics worldwide could exist one day, along with explanatory notes for each country's policy, but this isn't it. Trebor 13:19, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Which brings up another point, actually. Wouldn't that article be better titled List of gun policies worldwide? It's hard to imagine what a "list of politics" would be. Mangojuicetalk 22:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, that would make sense. I'm not sure this topic is suited to a list at all, to be honest, given the specific nuances of each country's policies. I would be happy to be proved wrong but at present, this is the wrong article at the wrong title with the wrong idea (IMO). Trebor 22:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- Which brings up another point, actually. Wouldn't that article be better titled List of gun policies worldwide? It's hard to imagine what a "list of politics" would be. Mangojuicetalk 22:01, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
- Speedy delete Largely an empty article with no context (WP:CSD#A1). The table is oversimplify original research with no definition to what "gun control" is. Also I can already see one error on the table with regard to the United States, which does have some gun control laws in place, but not very strict ones. --Farix (Talk) 13:44, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per above: no meaningful content and OR. Sandstein 14:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per Sandstein. Madman 15:22, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per above GabrielF 18:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per mon Bucketsofg 19:15, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per all of the above. (Article is also wrong on UK where licencing of guns is far far older than 1987!) Emeraude 12:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete - UK entry is incorrect; "Gun control" is not defined, and as such it could be argued that all entires therein could be simply WP:POV. SkierRMH 02:40, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete - Per reasons above... I mean, at least define what is meant by "gun control"! --Thisisbossi 03:11, 23 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.
