Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antarctic Geopolitical Thinking in South America


 * 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. Mailer Diablo 17:10, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Antarctic Geopolitical Thinking in South America
This article, though very well-written, is also lacking context (its first sentence does not even explain the meaning of the term). In addition, it has been completely written (excluding markup, etc) by one user, User:Jack Child, who is also the author of the book which this article references. So there is the possibility that this may be copyed straight out of the book, leading to copyright complications. I'm not sure if deleting it would be the right thing to do, but I at least wanted to bring this to the attentions of people with a better understanding of the policy than I do JianLi 19:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Remove references to 'Jack Childs' books and remove 'Jack Childs' own research If the author himself has copied it then its probably ok as he owns the material and therefore has the right to use it as he pleases, including subjecting it to open license. However it is certainly the case that much of the content of the article is the authors own arguements (demonstrated by him referencing his own book). This means that is breaches WP:NOR and those parts which are his own analysis should be removed.Adam Slack 20:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This looks like a pretty clear essay to me. Some of the information in the article may belong on Wikipedia, but perhaps woven into a discussion of Antarctic or South American politics, not as its own article. But, as the previous commentor mentions, WP:NOR applies, and WP:NPOV may too. Originalbigj 23:56, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Originalbigj. Also, I still have no firm idea what "Antarctic Geopolitical Thinking" means. JianLi 17:15, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


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