Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demographic-economic paradox


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) → B  music  ian  02:52, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Demographic-economic paradox
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OR article. Title invented by Wikipedia. Not a single source used in the article uses the term "Demographic-economic paradox". Yes, there is a negative correlation between income and fertility/population growth - so what? There are all kinds of correlations between various variables. Volunteer Marek 13:51, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep My initial lean was to delete, as a Google search of the term turned up many references, but all that I reviewed (with one potential exception) traced to the Wikipedia article:


 * 1) WP itself
 * 2)  A discussion forum linking to the WP article
 * 3)  A blog entry, linking to the WP article
 * 4)  a content-free entry in a list of paradoxes, probably scraped from WP
 * 5)  a content-free entry in a newspaper, probably scrapped from WP
 * 6)  A blog entry, scraped from the WP article
 * 7)  A discussion forum linking to the WP article
 * 8)  Use of the term without a WP reference, although written after the WP article, no so not clear that it is independent.

However, a Google search of books, while turning up some Wikipedia compilations, also turned up some independent sources, pre-dating the WP article.


 * 1981 Book—
 * 2006 Book—
 * 1995 Book—

It appears the phrase was coined by Herwig Birg, perhaps in 1995. However, the original phrase was "Demo-economic paradox". A search in Google for that term yields hits other than the WP article.

It appears the article needs better referencing, not deletion.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  12:57, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - AfD is not for clean-up, and this article appears to document a valid concept. Bearian (talk) 23:26, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - The above book citations disprove the accusation of original research invented by Wikipedia. The concept was popularized by Mark Steyn's 2006 book America Alone and also show up in --Yannick (talk) 22:57, 3 July 2012 (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.