Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of Chinese and United States governments


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 02:36, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Comparison of Chinese and United States governments

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Not a proper topic for an encyclopedia. There are about 200 nations in the world. If we compared the government of each one to each other one that would be 40,000 articles. Steve Dufour (talk) 03:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Actually, it would only be 20,000 articles. Matchups 17:39, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No. 2 x 2 = 4, 100 x 100 = 10,000, 10,000 x 4 = 40,000.  That's how I figure these kind of things out. :-)  Steve Dufour (talk) 20:17, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - That is one impressive piece of WP:OR. I almost want to save it because of its quality. D ARTH P ANDA duel 03:37, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages for the same reasons:
 * Steve Dufour (talk) 03:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete both Wikipedia is not the place for compare and contrasts -- save that for essays. RayAYang (talk) 05:27, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, per above. --MaNeMeBasat (talk) 07:28, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete both I agree with Darth Panda on this one. These are well-written essays that violate several Wikipedia's policies.  First, this is the type of original research called "original synthesis", where someone refers to sourced material and then draws his/her own conclusions.   Second, there is point of view; the English Wikipedia tries for a global outlook, and articles aren't written to explain things to an American, a Canadian, a Brit, or an Australian, etc.;  Finally, compare-and-contrast articles are discouraged in general, simply because of the problem of what I would call "IDIC", to use a Star Trek reference to "infinite diversity in infinite combinations"; you can compare and contrast any two items.  Yes, I know that the Chinese, Russian and American governments control two of the most powerful nations on Earth, but notability arguments don't overcome the other policies.  My personal opinion is that the task of comparing and contrasting two governments is something that a professor or a schoolteacher assigns in order for a person to learn this for themselves.  Though it wasn't the intent of either article, these are written well enough that they could easily be plagiarized to become the term paper to copy and turn in.  Anyway, good articles both, but violative of policy as well.  Mandsford (talk) 16:40, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:15, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:16, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per RayAYang. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 01:13, 6 December 2008 (UTC)


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