Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legal terrorism (3rd nomination)

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 SPEEDY CLOSE - wrong venue. Discussion restarted at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_28#Legal_terrorism. Kaldari (talk) 22:43, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Legal terrorism

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This page redirects to Dowry law in India (since September 2011). I was going to speedy delete this as vandalism, but it seems to have a convoluted history. Nevertheless, this is a clear WP:NPOV violation, as it is the equivalent of redirecting "Infanticide" to Abortion. Yes, there are people who call it that, but it doesn't mean they get to create a redirect on Wikipedia to promote their cause. It's already attracted several complaints on the talk page. Kaldari (talk) 07:37, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Redirect is a vandalism. Reverting vandalism. AfD can be closed. Geeteshgadkari (talk) 12:04, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- That redirect was created by the consensus of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legal terrorism (2nd nomination), so how is that vandalism? --Lambiam 14:54, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy close, wrong venue. Redirect pages should be discussed at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion. --Lambiam 15:00, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Ug, why do we have a completely separate venue for redirects? Oh well guess I'll start over. Kaldari (talk) 22:35, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This used to be a real article. However the expression is kind of problematic. Of course governments use fear, and sometimes violence, to influence people. But terrorism almost always means non-government groups doing this. BigJim707 (talk) 16:05, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:47, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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