Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Australian conceptions of race and ethnicity

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 of the debate was delete. W.marsh 01:50, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thoroughly unencyclopædic essay based solely on original research and point of view. Anything that such an article might reasonably cover would be more appropriate to articles such as demographics of Australia, immigration to Australia and even culture of Australia. cj | talk 03:24, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - "I'll recommend deletion of this article within the next week". Unfortunately, I never went through with that. The article is perfect fodder for someone to push their cause. michael ^talk 03:49, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak keep This article needs dramatic work, but that is no reason to necessarily delete. I don't think the purpose embodied in the title is necessarily misconceived. It is POV, unstructured and reads (I believe only in parts) like an essay, but I don't think this is irredeemable. A renaming of some sort is probably necessary. Dramatic work, but not deletion unless it persists in this form. Jammo (SM247) 03:55, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. It seems to have problems with POV and original research. It would need rigorous citations to stay. Capitalistroadster 04:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 04:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete POV and OR.Blnguyen | rant-line 07:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Jammo (SM247). Potentially a good article with more sources and clearer structure. David L Rattigan 11:04, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Personal essay. Rebecca 11:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep More references are alluded to than given, so although it was obviously written as an essay originally I think it can become encyclopedic. Ansell 12:29, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 15:07, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. "There's potential for a good article" is not grounds to keep an OR, POV entry. Delete and recreate as tightly sourced article if someone is willing to put the effort into it. ~ trialsanderrors 16:30, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unless rewritten; disregard this vote if the article has changed significantly from this version when the deletion is closed.
  In other words, AFAIC those who think the article is redeemable have five days to fix it; if there is, in fact, nobody who is prepared to do the dirty work, then we certainly don't want to keep it hanging around in its current state. — Haeleth Talk 16:50, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. OR. —Centrx→talk 20:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. Aguerriero (talk) 20:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete can't see this being draged up from the OR mess it is in. Unless someone can give me a example of how Australians view race/ethnicity significantly differently for the rest of the Western world, I would be unwilling to change my "vote", regardless of rewrite. --Eivind^t@c 21:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. While the article at the moment should be deleted, a Race relations in Australia article is needed and this would start that of. --Midnighttonight 04:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - per nom abakharev 08:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, POV pushing and OR. KleenupKrew 10:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom -- I@n ≡ talk 03:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• 'Delete, POV essay.--Peta 07:23, 23 June 2006 (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.