Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Men and feminism

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 to delete. Can be edited, even if it's down to a stub, to remove the essay-ish stuff. W.marsh 20:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Men and feminism

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Essay not an article. Fails WP:NOT. --Legis (talk - contribs) 20:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

• Certainly written as an essay, and it's hard to see how it could become encyclopedic. Delete —Verrai 20:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete wp:not. High risk of becoming flamebait too. --Victor falk 21:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. Essay. The debate over whether men can be feminists is amusing, although this isn't its intention of course. Operating 23:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep. This page scarcely reads like an essay and even if it does it needs cleanup, not deletion. Many of the views it presents are cited to reliable sources. It has all sorts of useful content, e.g. Most scholars divide male reactions to feminism into three categories: profeminist, anti-feminist, and masculinist.[1] (with a summary of each of those views). The debate over whether men can be feminists may be amusing to one reader, but it appears to be something that feminists have written and thought about, judging by the references in the section. This article is mainly the summary of a debate, attributed to reliable sources, not an essay. Calliopejen1 14:05, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment, I hear what Calliopejen1 says, and it is well sourced, but I still have reservations as to whether it is really encyclopediac. It just says "sophomore year essay" all over it to me. Would an alternative be to salvage all the supported statement relating to established feminist theory and merge it into Feminist theory? --Legis (talk - contribs) 15:38, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, essay. If such article are to exist on WP they should be of much higher quality from the start. It is next to impossible to modify essays into proper articles and we don't need to wait few years to delete this text virtually unchanged. Pavel Vozenilek 22:56, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Perfectly fine as a stub. Bearian 22:47, 15 October 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.