Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polish Empire

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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. Tawker 21:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polish Empire

This amateur and childish version of Polish history has no redeeming features. The title is all wrong, as Poland was never a formal empire. The material is already covered in History of Poland. The rambling article is written in a manner that can only be called unsophisticated, to put it mildly. Section titles are so ridiculous, they are actually humorous. There are obvious copyvio problems. Some of the content might, after considerable rewriting, be moved into the History of Poland article, but quite frankly I do not think that is worth the trouble. Balcer 22:44, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete A for effort, but as it is already in another article, should be deleted. _-M o P-_ 23:00, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Possibly some parts of this are useful, but there are copyvio problems, POV problems and overall this is a fork of History of Poland.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 01:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, or Merge what can be salvaged (if anyone is brave enough to attempt that). At the very least, leave the term as Redirect. It may be a matter of perspective as to whether or not Poland was an "empire" (some texts do use the term), despite the "formality" (by whatever standard that implies). Even though the nominator is correct that the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth (for lack of a better term) never styled itself as an empire, people may very reasonably search for that term despite the correctness of it. It can't hurt to redirect them to the correct information. Fluit 01:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Comment I see nothing wrong with a redirect to History of Poland or Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, for example. Fluit 02:31, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Just delete. There is no need to attempt to merge every personal essay that is inappropriately posted. CalJW 02:11, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Hahahahahaaaaaa!!! Maybe we should BJAODN the section titles. "Napoleon I Helps Poland Establish 2nd Constitution In The World (After the United States)"? Riiiiiiiight. Oh yeah, delete this pseudo-essay and redirect to History of Poland. Grandmasterka 04:52, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. --MaNeMeBasat 10:21, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete How can Napoleon I have helped Poland achieve the 3rd May Constitution 8 years before he came to power? Why does Sobieski and the Turks take up about half of the whole article? Why is this called "Polish Empire" when there was never a Polish state in history to proclaim itself as such? This article is misleading and misinformed, with a worrying emphasis on "conquest" and "empire" considering the fact that Poland has been one of Europe's least expansionist nations! The writer should get his priorities right when writing about Poland as he is not doing their reputation (or Wikipedia's) any favours however good his intentions.--Ohollo 17:01, 24 April 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.