Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lorrainian people

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 of the debate was delete. —Kirill Lokshin 02:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lorrainian people

This is a badly done stub which doesn't add anything to the Lorraine entry. It is part of an attempt to create ethnic groups everywhere, even where nobody would dream of one... Lorraine certainly has a troubled history, passing from Germany to France and back & forth. This doesn't means that there is a "Lorraine" ethnic people, as this entry tend to make believe. Lapaz 16:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:32, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Abstain. We already have a page on Lorrain, the language. But we also have a page for Texans, even though Texans are very much not an ethnicity, because Texas had a history as an independent nation and because its residents in certain contexts will identify more strongly with Texas than with the USA. As a result, I consider this a very close call. --Mareino 15:38, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I would tend to assume that this is not a real ethnic group, and the article contains no evidence to the contrary. The other articles cover things better. CalJW 16:55, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• weak keep or merge into Lorraine. As of the start of World War one, Lorraine had a separate culture, and a regional, almost national, identity. (see various histories including Tuchman's The Guns of August on that point.) Wether they are truly an ethnicity, I couldn't say. But they had at one time a sufficently separate identity to be worth a mention. Howver, this need to be significantly celaned up and expanded -- if it isn't the issue should be dealt with in the main Lorraine article until and unless there is enough separate verifiable content to justify article. Mareino, above, makes some good points. DES ^(talk) 18:24, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Nothing usefull in the article atm, nothing which cant be covered in Lorraine.--BadSeed 23:11, 19 January 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.