- Allegations of apartheid (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (restore|cache|AfD)
No consensus for deletion
- Overturn. In the AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Allegations of apartheid (second nomination) I count 6 arguments for deletion, 6 arguments to keep. Deletion seems to be based more on personal bias than anything else. Jayjg (talk) 19:06, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- The article was pretty cruddy, though, wasn't it? Guy (Help!) 19:39, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Well, it would help if you were more specific; "pretty cruddy" describes at least 50% of the articles on Wikipedia. It certainly was very well referenced. Jayjg (talk) 19:51, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn. I Agree with Jay: every section, actually every paragraph is sourced, thus totalling 87 references. For WP standards, the article is not cruddy at all. --tickle me 20:00, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn. Per Jayjg, imperfect content is not a good enough reason for deletion. Looks like a case of creative accounting. Sorry I missed the vote. ←Humus sapiens ну? 21:02, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn Its hard for me to believe that the parent to so many other entries is "pretty cruddy," especially when AfD was 6 to 6. TewfikTalk 21:07, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse closure as within admin discretion. AFD decisions are not decided by vote count. Comparing the actual comments, all but one "keep" opinion were at the front of the discussion and were short to the point of being fairly unhelpful in the discussion. Once new arguments were presented in the discussion, the weight of opinion fairly clearly turned toward deletion. (Note: It would have been nice if the earlier participants had returned to the discussion and either changed their minds or explicitly endorsed their prior opinion. Unfortunately, people seem to have fallen out of the habit of returning to deletion discussions.)
The issue of sourcing is not, in my opinion, the definitive issue here. No one is disputing that the word "apartheid" is being used in each of these contexts. The problem is in deciding which uses are appropriate to list in this article. The opening paragraph of the last deleted version even says that "its meaning has been extended to include any wholesale cultural, intellectual, religious, economic, or gender based discrimination." Apartheid has become so widely used as an epithet that we are left to determine for ourselves which uses really qualify and which are mere rhetoric. That's the original research problem. I don't see how that problem could have been solved - and neither, apparently, did the folks participating in the deletion debate. Rossami (talk) 21:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Comment - I see arguments both pro and contra, but why this particular case should be made an exception/example/revenge for other cases where count matters? I don't like polls in general, but given the outcome, why should one janitor's... errr, admin's discretion be given preference rather than another admin's? I don't think it is a good idea to brandish mops. ←Humus sapiens ну? 22:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn with prejudice. I'm not sure 6 votes is even a quorum, even if they were unanimous. Not only that, but an admin's job is not to be judge and jury over these cases - this is why consensus is sought. I have every reason to believe the closing admin acted in good faith, but has clearly misunderstood the limits of his/her mandate and authority. --Leifern 22:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn as a violation of consensus. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 23:12, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn, but rename. The title "allegations of apartheid" is very illogical. First of all, a couple of articles I've read describe real-life facts, not "allegations". The title must correspond to facts the describe, not political labels assigned to tyhese facts. Apartheid is a specific term applied to a specific country. To call apartheid enywhere else is similar to term like Feminazi which is just a slur. A supposedly NPOVing addition "allegations" is a clumsy way to introduce NOPOV: it leaves an impression that these "allegations" are just opinions of disgruntled political opponents. For what is described there is a universal term, segregation. Mukadderat 00:24, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse closure per Rossami - an AfDs is not a vote, what matter is the debate. The article is cruddy: it is a mishmash of stuff which belongs to "Human Rights in X" articles under a better encyclopedic format. Baristarim 00:55, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse closure although the timing wasn't good. The articles on Israel, Islam and Cuba should also have been simultaneously up for deletion with any salvageable material going to appropriate serious articles. At present there is a whole game going on being played by a handful of opposing editors over this issue, that's been running for over a year, and it is just one massive violation of WP:POINT. Its damaging wikipedia. Deleting this article was the first step towards unravelling this mess and it shouldn't stop there. Basing a series of disparate themes that are merely linked by a perjorative, and nothing else, is not good practice.-- Zleitzen(talk) 01:57, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn. Sounds about right. --badlydrawnjeff talk 03:13, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- I am sorry, I generally don't like commenting on other people's votes, but I think that this goes to the heart of this debate: it is "votes" like this that create this confusion, and is the precise reason why this AfD is in deletion review. People: it is not a friggin' vote, please explain your reasons - "sounds about right" doesn't mean anything in itself, right? :) I am sure you have very good reasons why you want it overturned, but can you go the extra mile and explain them please? Baristarim 03:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- No problem. I can't really say much more than needs to be said, but it's been made clear that weight-of-argument doesn't factor as highly here as it does at AfD, so an added voice agreeing with what's been said above better helps the closer in this case. Until DRV starts using strength of arguments, I'm forced. Sorry. --badlydrawnjeff talk 03:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn due to lack of consensus and because it is inconsistent with the result of the latest attempt to delete Allegations of Israeli apartheid which was going on at the same time but had a different result. I agree with Zleitzen that all articles about accusations of apartheid should be merged/renamed to articles that do not have apartheid in the title (other than the one about South Africa, of course.) However, I think it has to be done as part of a coordinated effort. To delete this one while "IA" remains -- and now seemingly even further immunized against deletion because it supposedly has had 4 unsuccessful nominations -- sends the wrong message, in my opinion. 6SJ7 04:58, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS] ;) Kla'quot 08:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- That does not apply when the two articles in question are, essentially, one article that has been split into two parts, which is the case here. 6SJ7 05:22, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse we don't count votes, the article is an irredemable mess of unconnected rhetoric - allegations of fascism anyone?--Docg 08:53, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse the keep arguements were based on a "me two" response with it needs to be cleaned up not deleted, where as the arguments for deletion were based n WP:SYNT policy which states that joined together in an article in order to advance [a] position becomes original research. Gnangarra 13:40, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn Without prejudice. I think there was still much discussion to be had on the subject; I'm sorry I didn't see it until after it closed. IronDuke 14:45, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse per Doc Glasgow. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of allegations. Such articles should be deleted without prejudice. The day Britannica and other print encyclopedias carry this junk (in other words, when pigs fly), then bring them back to Wikipedia. Khorshid 21:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
- When do you imagine "Britannica and other print encyclopedias" will carry multiple and voluminous articles on things like List of Pokémon characters, List of Pokémon items, Pokémon regions (including multiple sub-articles), Poké Ball, Pokédex, and particularly List of Pokémon, which includes sub-articles on over 400 of your favorite Pokémon creatures? I'm particularly looking forward to Britannica's Registeel article, I think Wikipedia's has significant deficiencies. Jayjg (talk) 06:05, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Pokemon argument is not a valid argument - in any case Pokemon is not an "allegation" - most people might consider it childish but there are those who like it: but there are no disputes as to what constitutes "Pokemon". You will never see an article titled "Allegations of Pokemon", even in Wikipedia. The "Pokemon argument" is a notability one, not a OR, fork or a POV one. :)) Baristarim 06:13, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn, that was a well documented article. --Shamir1 05:46, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse closure. The policy of no original research is non-negotiable, and there was a consensus that this article either had lots of OR or was entirely OR. Perhaps this article can be retitled and rewritten in a way that addresses the concerns raised in the AfD. Kla'quot 08:26, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn per jayjg and humus sapiens. I find the Pokemon analogy refreshing and also the fact that the article was well sourced.Bakaman 15:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn per jayjg and humus sapiens.--Urthogie 18:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn per jayjg and humus sapiens and as the article was obviously well-sourced. I would like to address two comments above. (1) if the content belongs in "Human rights in X" articles, that's an argument to merge and not to delete. (2) Khorshid wrote, "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a collection of allegations". Politics, in large part, consists of series of allegations and counterallegations; hard facts are often difficult to come by. Also, allegations may be encyclopedic if they have received sufficient coverage to render them notable. -- Black Falcon 18:42, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse deletion Mud may be slung in other places, but this is not a credible academic topic, and articles about mudslinging are likely to be far more trouble to keep neutral than the miniscule importance of the article can ever justify. Nathanian 00:47, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- Comment As this article was deleted based on the belief that it violated WP:SYNT, I would like to see "overturn" arguments that explain why it did not violate WP:SYNT. Pointing out the copious references doesn't help when the problem is novel synthesis. Kla'quot 08:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- What I do not understand is why, if the deletion did not even get a majority, much less a consensus, one administrator has the right to delete the article in the first place. It seems to me that the restoration should be automatic, and then the deletion process can start over if someone wishes to do so. This article and Allegations of Israeli apartheid were nominated for deletion on the same day, for the same reason, by the same person, and both got similar numbers to keep and delete (exactly even in this case), and yet this article goes and the one about Israel stays. 6SJ7 12:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- This article was deleted on the grounds that as it linked disparate phenomena in a way no actual notable forum has ever attempted, it was judged to have violated WP:SYNT and WP:NOR after arguments made by editors, totally within process. Afd is not a vote. The problems with the other article, of which there are many, are different and should be assessed on their own merits. But all the articles should have been up for deletion simultaneously, and the nominator should have given proper reasons which applied to the relevant articles. As it is, the nominator made a mess of it.-- Zleitzen(talk) 13:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- Well, the nominator set the mess in motion, but the administrator who closed this AfD and deleted the article without a consensus, while at the same time another administrator was (properly, I must admit) closing the one about Israel consistent with the consensus, perpetuated the mess. Regardless of how the mess got here, it is here, and it needs to be corrected. 6SJ7 02:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- overturn The question here is (or should be) not whether the article was a synthesis, but whether the topic is a synthesis. And what could be simpler? Allegations... apartheid. Said allegations are made in various venues in reference to various allegees by various allegators. Perhaps this would have been more compelling had the deletion of Allegations of Brazilian Apartheid been pushed through first then the dust allowed to settle in order to cover the POVness of standing Allegations of Israeli Apartheid up on its own. Gzuckier 15:06, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn and relist This should all have one more go through the blender. -- Kendrick7talk 23:53, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
- Comment: On a note raised by 6SJ7 about the Israeli article... I don't think that the two are related in the sense that one is about a specific country, nevertheless had I been aware of that AfD I would have voted for a merge with Human rights in Israel article. But again, there is no reason to overturn this because the other one was a keep/no-concensus. I know this will be a straw man, but there is no reason to set a thief free just because another one got away :) Baristarim 13:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Overturn. WP:SYNT, the way I see it is using two or more sources to draw new conclusions supported by none of them. If there are multiple sources each supporting a section segregated from the others, no new conclusions have been drawn, and there is no synthesis. The validity of the article therefore rests on the validity of the sections, and I think there was not a consensus that those were invalid. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:01, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- I think it was having sections on numerous different disparate topics on the same page linked only by a rhetorical word, rather than by subject matter, that makes it WP:SYNTH. Meaning that it is original research to combine and link these disparate topics, as they had never been studied as a collective phenomenon elsewhere. It means that wikipedia had effectively created and collectively studied a topic, "allegations of apartheid", that didn't exist in the outside world, and elevated a rhetorical descriptive term used in passing to the status of a topic in itself, which in reality it isn't. Individually, "tourist apartheid" in Cuba stems from a wider programme of policies initiated after Cuba's economic collapse of the early 1990s, "social apartheid" in Brazil relates to years of economic disparities in Brazil that can be traced back to the time of slavery, "Israeli apartheid" refers to a particular dispute in the middle east. None of these have any connection to each other other than one rhetorical term used in passing, and have never been associated or studied as a collective phenomenon elsewhere. Because they do not form a single topic or subject.- Zleitzen(talk) 16:06, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- The problem is, the people who make the allegation of "apartheid" don't seem to think it is merely a "rhetorical term used in passing", but a legitimate claim and valid analogy, as in particular do the people nurturing the Allegations of Israeli apartheid article. They even allege (despite its absurdity) that the they are referring to the Crime of apartheid. Jayjg (talk) 03:30, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse, violation of WP:SYNT and WP:POINT.--Ķĩřβȳ♥♥♥ŤįɱéØ 16:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse (my) closure. (Apologies for the delay; was mostly idle over Easter, and since nobody had informed me this was being listed at DRV, I only noticed it a minute ago while resuming activity.) Sources aren't really the issue here; the problem is that the sources established only that the term "apartheid" had been used or misused to describe cases X, Y, and Z. So what's the problem? Well, the article covered "gender apartheid", "Islamic apartheid", "financial apartheid", "water apartheid", and a half-dozen other "apartheids", some of which had been used by a single individual and some by a greater number of individuals, a couple of which were somewhat questionably defined, and few of which had anything to do with the legal definition of "apartheid" with which the article began. None of the sources backed up any sort of equivalency between these differing forms or interpretations of "apartheid". There is no such connection (that I could find) between these different instances, according to our sources -- we were creating this connection, and that is original synthesis. They're all allegations, and all use the word "apartheid", yes, but what is meant by all of these terms is not necessarily the same thing. Additionally, some sections were unsourced/OR, and others might have been treading on giving undue weight to given POVs. Shimeru 04:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
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