Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Types of marriages

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 no consensus. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 10:53, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Types of marriages

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This article seems to consist almost entirely of original research. Although the subject itself may be notable, the article is so rife with speculation, WP:SYNTH, neutrality problems, and poor sourcing that it would be best to start over from a blank slate. - Mr X 12:41, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep for now but consider reorganization. The list of links to articles on types of marriage is useful and a valid list (maybe this could be renamed and kept as a list article, and possibly subcategorized). Some content could be merged with Marriage, and some is duplicated with Marriage, but that article is crazily long and badly needs reorganization. I'd propose keeping this at least until some work can be done on restructuring Marriage and deciding exactly how to present all this information. I also disagree that this is original research, as most of it is obvious and could easily be referenced: is it really OR to say some African societies permit polygamy while most western societies have laws against it? --Colapeninsula (talk) 12:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
keep WHat this article needs it to be rewritten not deleted.--Jeffrd10 (talk) 13:09, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
strong delete This article has been tagged since 2007 and has almost no citation to validate it. The information is redundant to marriage and each individual "type of marriage" listed appears to have its own page as well. If this article must be kept, it should be condensed into a list of types of marriage.I feel like a tourist (talk) 13:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- comment Please note that "types of marriage" is already given a generous section in the marriage article I feel like a tourist (talk) 15:27, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The topic of types of marriages should be covered under Marriage itself, and probably be the first section after marriage is defined. This is regardless of the quality of this article. Kitfoxxe (talk) 14:52, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I am not opposed to the concept of this article. How long should the main article be, and should this remain as a breakaway section? Does it violate WP:FORK? Bearian (talk) 18:37, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The topic has clear notability in the field of sociology of family. That the article is poorly referenced and may consist OR is grounds for tagging it with article, section or inline templates, but not for deletion. If there's any reply to me here please echo me. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 16:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 11 January 2014 (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.