Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American West Indies


 * 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 delete and redirect to Territories of the United States. Daniel (talk) 03:41, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

American West Indies

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No sources since 2009. A search doesn't reveal that there is such a thing. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:06, 4 January 2021 (UTC) Additionally, IP from where this was created had just a history of vandalism. The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 12:25, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 12:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Redirect or delete?
 * Delete, there was one non-fiction author from 1969 who used it as an epithet for her book, but the term doesn't appear to have ever been in use. – Thjarkur (talk) 12:59, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Territories of the United States as a plausible search term. Mccapra (talk) 13:00, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep/redirect it's a loose term like America's Caribbean. One possible target is List_of_Caribbean_islands. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:42, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete zero sources exist to show that anyone outside Wikipedia has ever used this term, or that it has ever been used in a reliable source. Or to explain why an uninhabited island is included but Guantanamo Bay is not.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:48, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Territories of the United States: Redirects are cheap; it could be a search term, regardless of if its correct, it had 159 pageviews in Dec 2020. Nothing here to merge or keep.  // Timothy ::  talk  02:58, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   20:49, 11 January 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per WP:NEOLOGISM (geologism?). Clarityfiend (talk) 07:10, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Territories of the United States - this seems the most logical option, since American West Indies is a real term that some people used to, maybe still do, use to refer to the US territories in that region. Better to have this as a redirect than to later have a good-faith recreation of it as a separate page. — Maile (talk) 02:02, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Vaticidalprophet (talk) 08:40, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I think we can keep it. I think we can keep the article. I have added some sources and new information to the page. But a redirect would make a bit more sense. Its up to you guys. DestinationFearFan (talk) 19:49, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment I removed the sources you added which are sources for other things i.e. West Indies. Why did you do that? That is not the correct way to source information. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 22:21, 20 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete has misrepresented the sources added. Ref 1 is named as "American West Indies", but the title of this link is actually "West Indies". Ref 2 is named "America and the West Indies", which is not a source for this article, the link is actually "The Extension of American Influence in the West Indies". Ref 3 is named as "The American West Indies", but the link is called "America, or the New World, or the West Indies". , why did you do this? Why did you deliberately use the wrong names for these links? Not one of these backs up the article and refers to the West Indies, not the supposed subject here. This shows even more clearly the page should be deleted as an unused term, and I have to give you a WP:TROUT and now look at your other edits to see if you've falsely quoted things elsewhere. Reywas92Talk 20:41, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, but not opposed to a redirect to West Indies or one of the other suggestions above. ~EdGl talk 20:52, 26 January 2021 (UTC)


 * 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.