Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African British

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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 merge with Black British, of which it is supposedly a subset. I'm redirecting; merging can be done from the history, but only with reliable sources for this term, please (see WP:V). Sandstein 19:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] African British

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Completing an improperly listed deletion debate by User:Fclass. Personally, I abstain myself; I'm just helping out in maintenance. Ten Pound Hammer • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 02:45, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

This article is irrelevant. The term is not used in the U.K. There's no source for it's use except a poll. A poll? Come on. This article needs to go.Fclass 03:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Merge with Black British then, which seems to have the stronger usage and mentions the recent preference of "African British". Ten Pound Hammer • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 03:11, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete As other posters have pointed out, nobody says 'African British' in Britain. The term just doesn't exist in common usage at all. Nick mallory 04:14, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as per Nick mallory. --Interesdom 06:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I'm leaning towards a "delete" vote rather than "redirect", as I see no reason why article space should be filled up with redirects which promote American-style neologisms for ethnic minority populations, the category system already does quite enough of that, thank you very much. However, this term does have 41,000 GHits [1] and many of them actually seem to be about the population in question cab 07:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Black British. In the "Black British" it is noted that "The term African British has grown in popularity as an expression used to describe Black British people of specifically African ancestry. In 2005 a poll conducted by Blacknet revealed that African British was the most popular term (40%) for referring to people of African descent in the United Kingdom. Also in a poll carried out by Afford (African Foundation for Development) 50% of respondents agreed that African British should be the term adopted." If this is so, and still nobody actually uses it in daily life, this is in itself a noteworthy phenomenon. Anyway, in practice the two articles are very much overlapping, and people seeking the information in the one are likely also to be helped by the information in the other. Andreas Kaganov 13:05, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The article says it is for Black British with direct African antecedents, as opposed to Caribbean or Asian. A Google search shows referencing this usage is extremely easy, with 44,100 ghits here, including academic books & all sorts of mentions. The subject is hardly covered in Black British & sufficiently distinct. Both articles should cover the trend to use the term to cover those with Caribbean heritage as well, but this is not the meaning currently covered in the article, and best dealt with at Black British. Johnbod 17:40, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Black British. --Kralizec! (talk) 19:29, 30 May 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.