Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Censorship by country


 * 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   no consensus. There is no consensus here and re-listing it isn't going to magically achieve a consensus. Action on this article is divided. No objection to re-nom, if needed, in the future. TravellingCari 02:00, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Censorship by country

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Article is far from complete, which gives it a skewed POV. It's purpose is better served by the 30+ individual country articles that Wikipedia already has. Samuell Lift me up or put me down 00:10, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Concur it's hardly a fair assessment of the world - Brazil the US and Venezuela are the world's foremost examples of censorship, it would appear? I doubt they are anyone's 'top three'. Looks like it was split from censorship with just Brazil and Venezuela (!) and then an IP added the US. I can't see anything on the Censorship talk page explaining it, but THAT page seems to be a hornets nest anyway. MadScot (talk) 00:26, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions.   —-- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:33, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I had split the article from the Censorship article. Note that the article has an expand tag. Incompleteness is no reason for deletion. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 00:33, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Why was it split. It might be easier to understand why the article needs to exist if we know the background? MadScot (talk) 01:02, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I split it out since if all the other "Censorship in Foo" article were incorporated into the section it would make the orig article long and unbalanced in terms of material. Hence the reason for adding the expand tag after the split. There is a need for a summary article of all the "Censorship in Foo" articles. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:16, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment.I have added links to the other censorship article (have not finished this). Each country section needs info per WP:SS. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:16, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Move The material to Censorship in Venezuela. That's the only part that's been written,and there seems to be no article on the subject presently. DGG (talk) 04:12, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The material that was dubious and incorrect has been removed since the AFD nomination. The move you propose is now looking like a good idea. I may have to change my vote. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 04:52, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. The topic seems notable, if coverage is not comprehensive - what's new on Wikipedia :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 04:28, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment: There appears to be no 'Censorship by Country' category, despite the existence of an info box filling that role that is linked from various censorship articles.  It seems reasonable to replace this article with a category, and move the new Venezuelan information to a Censorship in Venezuela article. --Clay Collier (talk) 08:00, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * There is a Category:Censorship by country. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 09:01, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete there is already Category:Censorship by country with appropriate articles. Move any good information to the Venezuela article then delete. --Banime (talk) 15:36, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment. There is a need for a summary article such as this and to this end I have started adding info under each country heading. Such an article goes nicely with the Template:Censorship by country that I split from Template:Censorship by country. [[Image:Smile.svg]] -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 19:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep Per Alan Liefting. It is a notable topic. However, it has to be modified, expanded and cleaned up significantly to ensure that it is worthy of being an encyclopedic article on Wikipedia. Acs 4b  T C U 04:44, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Duplicate of an existing category, maintenance burden. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 12:06, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per Piotr or Merge into Freedom of speech by country. Volpeculus sagacis (talk) 21:49, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I feel that there would be room for both censorship and freedom of speech articles . The latter needs a bit of a cleanup. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:24, 29 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.