Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Iran's foreign policy

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 Foreign relations of Iran. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:47, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iran's Islamic foreign policy

The whole concept for this article is flawed and violates NPOV. The title is misleading; it does not examine Iran's foreign policy (Foreign relations of Iran already does that). Instead, it alleges that Iran has created a religious police force in Iraq. There are no corroborating references, and all references listed are quotes from the Quran and speeches by Iranian leaders. No alternative viewpoints are presented, and there is no better content possible under this title or its previous title, "Basij" in Iraq. It also violates the no original research policy. LittleDan^talk 00:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy keep I agree that the article was lousy at its inception. However, it has evolved and been revamped. It isn't excellent yet promising.--Patchouli 01:22, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Some redirects to the page need deletions.--Patchouli 02:12, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

That would need to be taken to WP:RFD and not here. --70.48.174.114 02:49, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Still has POV problems but it can probably be fixed eventually. --N Shar 03:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect The information is notable but does NOT warrant a separate article. The name is redundant to Foreign relations of Iran and the article should be merged with THAT article and this name redirected. --Jayron32 05:24, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Foreign relations of Iran. It's not quite a POV fork, but is close, and definitely doesn't merit a separate article at this point. TheronJ 15:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect I'm not sure if this is protocol for me to be commenting on my own deletion proposal, but I guess it would make more sense to make it a redirect to Foreign relations of Iran. Still I don't think there's any useful, non-OR to be used in that article. LittleDan^talk 17:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect as per above. Davewild 18:34, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep - the article just needs a good cleanup. --Ineffable3000 22:17, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete/redirect POV fork article with poor title. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Even if cleaned up really well, would be redundant with the existing foreign relations page Bwithh 01:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete/redirect - There is the potential for an article here but the current version is a hopeless mess. Merge anything salvageable into Foreign relations of Iran. --Richard 05:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete A lot of POV, gives off an anti Islamic tone, messy, horribly worded.Khosrow II 22:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete As per Khosrow - Marmoulak 23:40, 25 October 2006 (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.