Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alternatives to Discipline and Punishment

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The result was delete. Sandstein 12:12, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alternatives to Discipline and Punishment

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Essay →Σ τ c. 06:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This appears perhaps to be an essay for a classroom assignment, and lacks references establishing this as a discrete and notable topic. Every assertion of fact in such an article needs a reference to a reliable source, which are lacking in this case. In the end, it is little more than personal opinion. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 07:53, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 08:06, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. (1) The material is referenced to a book (William O'Grady, Crime in Canadian Context - Debates and Controversies, Second Edition). (2) It is exclusively concerned with alternatives to incarceration. We have an article Alternatives to imprisonment, which is essentially the same topic, though I seem to think that "imprisonment" doesn't technically include all forms of custodial sentence. James500 (talk) 08:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC) Alternatives to prison, imprisonment and incarceration produce respectively 30,100 and 174,000 and 415,000 results in Google Books, including books whose title consists of those words. James500 (talk) 09:01, 7 December 2011 (UTC) Obviously the material in Alternatives to Discipline and Punishment cannot stay where it is. Can it be rewritten and merged into Alternatives to imprisonment? James500 (talk) 09:18, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Can't quite put my finger on why - product of an unhappy mating between WP:OR and single source fluffcruft (trying to dress up a concept as a field of study). But pretty clear in my own mind that it is a Delete. --Legis (talk - contribs) 06:52, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a copy and paste of a student essay. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:41, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.