Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justice as Fairness

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 no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 13:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Justice as Fairness

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This article is a content fork of Equity (law) and for the most part covered by the Equity (law) article. As written, the material is not independent of the topic since the Wikipedia information about the book comes from the book. Delete and redirect to Equity (law). -- Jreferee t/c 19:33, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletions. —Anarchia (talk) 20:10, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, then create redirect to Equity (law) per the nom. Realistically, anything in here should go in the originating article. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 20:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep This is not a content fork of that article; it is a major philosophical meme in the works of one of the 20th centuries most important political philosophers. The edit history for this article goes back to 2003. There is a significant secondary literature on Rawls' philosophical publications. GRBerry 20:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, which is what I'd assume most people who type in "Justice as Fairness" would be looking for. (Is it really a fork of Equity (law)? I wouldn't have guessed... my first impression, as someone familiar with Rawls's book, was that it must be a spinoff of the article about the book.) - AdelaMae ^{(t - c - wpn)} 02:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep This is a famous essay of Rawls which is important in its own right. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement is also important, but this is not a minor piece, and it has had a significant impact on theories of justice to this day. Huadpe (talk) 21:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: The idea of justice as fairness has been very influential. Rawls wrote a book and several articles with "Justice as Fairness" in the title and, I'm sure, gave many talks on this topic. The John Rawls article links to Justice as Fairness as one of "the ideas from Rawls's work that have received wide attention", not as an article. There is, in fact, no mention of any article called "Justice as Fairness" except in the publication list at the bottom. (Also, the Justice as Fairness article claims to be about a phrase, not an article.) I would weakly support an article at (lowercase) Justice as fairness that clearly dealt with the idea and its development through Rawls's works and beyond, but I think it's reasonable to expect that (capital) Justice as Fairness redirect to Justice as Fairness: A Restatement; that's what I was trying to find when I typed it in. - AdelaMae ^{(t - c - wpn)} 23:52, 5 December 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.