Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demographic warfare

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.--Húsönd 21:07, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Demographic warfare

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The term is a neologism originated in somebody's thesis, which has not been accepted by academia. Essentially, the article takes facts (population figures and trends) and adds pop-sociological theories. Information is best treated elsewhere, and there's nothing here worth merging. Delete. - crz crztalk 16:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletions. - crz crztalk 16:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:SOAP. Article seems to be a soapbox for white supremacist propaganda regarding a race war in the United States together with completely unsourced and unsubstantiated claims of similar phenomena in other parts of the world, veiled in a thin academic guise. --Shirahadasha 16:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep if article can be expanded with more sources. It seems the term does have some usage outside of the dissertation: Google Book Search yields hits [1] for the exact term in a bunch of history/political books, while there are also 1,380 web Google hits for the term outside of Wikipedia [2]. --Howrealisreal 01:42, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep because it seems a reasonable version of Revenge of the cradle somewhat related to population explosion and the converse of Demographic transition (which may also "breed" warfare). Fits in with lots of other academic jargon that abounds. No big deal. IZAK 10:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, Shirahadasha. WP:SOAP. Collecting a series of quotes and snippets together doesn't produce an encyclopedic topic. Absent very thorough sourcing the suspicion of WP:OR is very strong. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:03, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. MetsFan76 00:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. OR; 20 or so citations of a 1970 book stating something fairly obvious isnt enough for a term to be declared encyclopaedic. Hornplease 10:57, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep if additional sources can be found that meet WP:RS per Howrealisreal. Dragomiloff 11:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, is baloney. FrummerThanThou 19:44, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete really crufty. There's no question that we could have an article about Demographics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or something, but it shouldn't be folded into Demographic warfare. The title implies that one group is purposefully outbreeding the other for political purposes, which seems pretty ridiculous. There's nothing in the article which cites demographic issues in a particular conflict to this general concept of demographic warfare. The Mexican/US thing is totally OR.GabrielF 07:25, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Partially based on unreliable research, and the partially original research. Mus Musculus 16:47, 14 December 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.