Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Life of African Women

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. Sr13 00:51, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Life of African Women

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is there possibility of this becoming an encyclopedic topic? i doubt it Xorkl000 00:37, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Delete - kind of original research topic. Miranda 00:51, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Delete Original research and no chance of becoming encyclopedic. Oysterguitarist 01:32, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

weak delete - I actually think it is an appropriate topic idea, though I can't see how an author would be able to generalize across all Africa. If one could really perform that generalization, though, and if the external research is out there to refer to (and I bet there's all sorts of African Women's Studies stuff out there), I think it would be a fantastic article for Wikipedia to have. Unfortunately, this article isn't it. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 01:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Comment if there were any National Geographic references included within the context of the article, then that would be a different story, since verifying facts are shown. Miranda 02:26, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

• Strong delete. Original research at best, WP:SNOW at worst. Realkyhick 02:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Strong delete I don't get how this could possibly become a viable article. Wikidudeman ^(talk) 06:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete It is virtually impossible for this article to be encyclopedic in nature. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 07:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

To both of the above: There is a place called Africa. There are women in it. What experiences do African women share? Do they have a common condition? In what ways do African women's lives differ from each other, and do African women experience things that others do not? My suggestion is that this can be a referenced and encyclopedic article, because all those questions have (probably) been written about in Women's Studies programs all over. Although, like I said, the present article isn't doing a good job at all.AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 21:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I could imagine an encyclopedic article under this title... but this isn't it, or even the start of it. Delete. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:36, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak delete per AllGloryToTheHypnotoad and Andrew Lenahan. It could be a really fine article, but this is not the one. If deleted, please do not salt. "I have a dream ..." oh, you know what I mean. Bearian 16:47, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete talk about indiscriminate...this list could go on for billions of entries. VanTucky ^(talk) 22:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Unfortunately. This would have been a very interesting article, although I think it would need to be completely re-started as there is OR and few sources. The lack of wikilinking, categories and poor writing would also justify the full restart of it.--JForget 17:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete You can tell which people vote to delete or to keep without even bothering to read the article, since there's no "list" involved at all and no clue as to why it was so titled. I did read it, it's not just a matter of being mistitled, and it is somewhat arbitrary to generalize about half of the residents of an entire continent. For those who judge a book only by its cover, spouting Wikipedia slogans doesn't make up for it. Mandsford 01:34, 23 July 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.