Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prison Statistics

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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. Singularity 08:43, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Prison Statistics

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I'm sure the content of this is in Prison, so it's more or less redundant, plus it's not referenced. Calvin 1998 (t-c) 22:20, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete: per WP:NOT#STATS. "In addition, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader," so I suggest moving info into Prison? The info (when properly sourced) will be very encyclopaedic. ——Ryan | t • c 22:26, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - What study? Which country? Needs removing per WP:V and WP:NOT#STATS. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm) can be linked to from broader article, if it isn't already. Marasmusine (talk) 22:32, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Per WP:NOT#STATS. The title kills it dead, also it needs verification (Maramusine, I think the country is the US, because that's the only country where the term "African American" would apply). Also it looks a bit like school work Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 22:35, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - The conclusions to what sounds like an opinion piece on African Americans in prison are not verified. It's all covered in Incarceration in the United States and United_States_incarceration_rate anyway. Nk.sheridan   Talk 22:46, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • SMerge or Delete and redirect to Prison. I think it's a good enough search term to justify a redirect. I'm just not sure whether anything in the current article would actually need to be merged into the existing prison article (which does have a statistics section). Erechtheus (talk) 22:47, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • First, find a citation for the study mentioned in the article, then merge content into incarceration in the United States and finally, redirect to prison. Bwrs (talk) 22:52, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete as random stats; nothing worth merging. JJL (talk) 23:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, dont even bother with merging. I dont know where the stat's are from, what country they refer to, and so on, but on their own they aren't important enough for an individual article. Ironholds (talk) 00:33, 25 May 2008 (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.