Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hardworking families

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A substub and dicdef that refers to a phrase being used in the current UK general election. No potential to become encyclopaedic and it's difficult to think of anything more that can be said about it. Dbiv 10:39, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete - I agree that it lacks potential to go anywhere. Charles Matthews 11:14, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Refactor: I created the article because I did not understand what the phrase meant (the semantic face-value is mysterious) but it seemed to be used very frequently by both Labour and Conservative politicians. At least it should be merged into the article code word (propaganda) or UK general election, 2005. – Kaihsu 11:56, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
  • Delete. Unencyclopedic phrase. Mikkalai 12:27, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Question: does this mean anything different from "families which are hardworking"? Kappa 21:37, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Well, not in principle, no. But in the UK election it's being used as a code: the parties all want to lower taxes and provide services for "hardworking families", by which they mean to include everyone who might vote for them but exclude feckless benefit recipients (right-wing use) or those who have unearned income (left-wing use). Which is what I suspect Kaihsu was trying to say, but I think it has extremely limited value as a separate page. Dbiv 21:53, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, not encyclopaedic, POV phrase. Megan1967 07:13, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, unencyclopedic. Radiant_* 08:56, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)