Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Civil rights history

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was MERGE and REDIRECT to Civil rights. Postdlf 05:36, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Civil rights history
This misleadingly-named article isn't a history at all, but a highly selective list of political issues such as gay rights, fathers' rights, etc. lumped in with Apartheid and the American civil rights movement. Where's the Magna Carta? Suffrage for women? Tiananmen Square? There might be a good article to be written on the history of civil rights, but this isn't the beginning of one. &mdash;Wahoofive (talk) 00:24, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Um... You need to read the deletion policy. Lack of comprehensiveness and POV are not reasons to delete, why don't you improve the article? Keep. --Dmcdevit 00:28, 1 May 2005 (UTC) I was hasty, a merge and redirect is in order. --Dmcdevit 05:08, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Gingerly cleanup, merge and redirect to civil rights, which has plenty of room. Break out a history fork in the future if that's needed. Right now this is an unnecessary and duplicative fork, and confusingly named as at least four of the seven issues listed are current issues, and civil rights is far more historical. Samaritan 01:33, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing here that doesn't belong in civil rights, and really nothing here to merge anyway. Quale 01:40, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect. BTW, that article is in poor shape. Capitalistroadster 01:42, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I almost just rescinded my own m/r on this basis. But let's trust organic growth. Samaritan 01:44, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Although it's a list now, this article has potential to become a nice article on civil rights history. - Stancel 23:31 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV, nothing here that already isnt in Civil rights. Megan1967 04:38, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to civil rights. First off, a better title for this article as a stand-alone would be History of civil rights movements or Civil rights movements. But any conceivable content in those two articles is redundant with civil rights. Why not lump everything in civil rights until that article grows and sprouts sub-articles? Yay, usability! Feco 04:48, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs cleanup. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 06:46, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as per Feco. Shimmin 13:18, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no history here and nothing significant to merge. Rmhermen 18:37, May 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect. I disagree with Rmhermen...there is at least some information that could be interesting in civil rights.--MikeJ9919 19:21, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.