Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Biracial American


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The result was   delete. Gwen Gale (talk) 14:42, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Biracial American

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There are articles such as Multiracial which explains and includes American people who are mixed. Fclass (talk) 13:40, 6 September 2008 (UTC) Q: Is this an official US census catergory? Why a biracial American article, and not all the other nationalities? Biracial Canadians? Tri-racial mexicans? Hexa-racial micronesian? Article seems to exist only to fill in a gap in a "series" of articles about race in the US - seems unencylopedic to do this to me.Yobmod (talk) 16:02, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as a dictionary entry. Even if expanded, i don't think any reliable sources would discuss biracial-ness outside the broader context of multiracial-ness - it is clearly a sub topic and any specific info (if any is found) can go to into a section in Multiracial (or MR american?). We don't need articles on each possible proportion of racial mixture. And did the creator miss the memo that race doesn't really exist except as a social construct? Socialy, bi- tri- multi- racial people are the same.Yobmod (talk) 15:58, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

No, it's not an official American category (whatever that means). Fclass (talk) 16:07, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per Yobmod. I think "Biracial American" is a neologism as well. — Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs) 22:31, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:50, 11 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. There is also the possibility of merging the article with multiracial, but I really don't think that will happen. QuidProQuo23 03:13, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I think there is potential in this subject that can be expanded beyond what's in the Multiracial article specific to the U.S.; however, as it stands right now, it is only a dictionary entry. Unless someone can come up with significant sourced material that differentiates it from the other broad article, it is redundant. Right now, there is only one sentence and some pictures. Kman543210 (talk) 03:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. "Biracial American is a term that refers to an American who has parents of two different races."  Wow, thank you for that insight.  Mandsford (talk) 13:42, 11 September 2008 (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.