Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bioregional State


 * 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 of the debate was delete.  Rob ert  15:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Bioregional State
"Bioregional State" as a term seems to be almost exclusively used by Mark Whitaker's book/webpages "Towards a Bioregional State". The "Bioregional State" info on the website is not his published or peer-reviewed work, or his doctoral dissertation, and appears to be a collection of essay-type material, email conversations, etc. The book (which apparently is based on this) is self-published (iUniverse), ranked something like #1,500,000 at Amazon, and almost certainly would be nowhere near the 5000-copy test. I can find little or no other usage of the phrase "Bioregional State" aside from the expected "hall of mirrors" link effect from the website, Amazon, etc. I originally reconverted this entry from a redirect to bioregional democracy (a very problematic article in itself), but even the two sections I tagged there appear to have existed before the "Bioregional State" phrasing was added, and in any case if "Bioregional State" is a non-notable term the point is moot either way. David Oberst 17:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable term, sole-source original research as a concept. - David Oberst 17:47, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - according to Google Books and Amazon  Mark Whitaker's book is the only one using this term. Cinnamon42 18:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:NOR and WP:NEO. --Coredesat 20:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. The JPS talk to me  13:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. The JPS talk to me  13:02, 26 June 2006 (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.