Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ancestral domain


 * 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 Keep. (WP:SNOW). (Non-administrator closure.) Northamerica1000(talk) 06:55, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Ancestral domain
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lands_inhabited_by_indigenous_peoples for discussion. Alixos (talk) 07:15, 16 October 2013 (UTC)


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WP:ESSAY on a very limited subtopic of the topic that the article's title purports the article to be about. Meanwhile, the overall topic is already covered at Indigenous land rights. After a discussion I had with this article's author under a merger proposal I'd placed at Talk:Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples (before I realized that this article was the ideal destination), I was left not understanding why this particular restricted set of details should be under a separate article, let alone such a generally named one. So I've merged nearly all the content from this article into Indigenous land rights, creating sections on ILO efforts, Indonesia, and the Philippines, in preparation for this deletion request. —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:19, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:20, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Indonesia-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:20, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 13:21, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:13, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. —Largo Plazo (talk) 15:16, 14 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep, without prejudice toward future decisions. This is a premature AfD. This article was recently created by a new Wikipedia contributor, with expertise in this topic area. To whatever (small) degree there might be concerns about complying with Wikipdia's content policices, there is no reason to believe the article's author couldn't be engaged to change the article accordingly. The "merge" referenced in the nomination was conducted in a way that violates the original author's copyright, and has since been reverted by me. -Pete (talk) 08:53, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, well-covered by secondary sources, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:51, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:47, 21 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep and improve. Afd is not cleanup. James500 (talk) 07:35, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, this appears to be a separate concept from Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples and the concept seems encyclopedic. SchreiberBike talk 03:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep, there is a bit of overlap with Indigenous rights, and other articles, however aboriginal title also overlaps. The term ancestral domain is real in a few jurisdictions, has meaning that extends beyond legal rights. The content is encyclopedic. John Vandenberg (chat) 00:25, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep I am not sure what the nominator did or is proposing with a merger. Is "ancestral domain" some legal term, technical term, or official designation? If so, then it probably deserves its own article. Certainly this article seems to meet notability criteria. Merging is something different - that happens with discussion on talk pages.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   02:30, 23 October 2013 (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.