Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Descending solid coalitions


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 06:03, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Descending solid coalitions

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The term "descending solid coalitions" is apparently missing in both Google Books and Google scholar, which is highly irregular for a valid scientific term. The article refers to a single source that is also missing the term. PROD was reverted. The alternate name, "Descending Acquiescing Coalitions", apparently has no independent WP:SIGCOV, see discussion at Talk:Descending solid coalitions. Викидим (talk) 07:55, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:11, 14 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep. As I noted, additional sources use many closely-related terms, like "Solid coalitions", "Proportionality for Solid Coalitions", etc. The article is useful in general discussions of voting systems because it has a fairly unique set of properties like later-no-harm and participation, which makes it useful pedagogically (in articles discussing these criteria). –Sincerely, A Lime 21:26, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. Have to agree with the reasons given here. I also cannot find any notable mentions except for some niche forums of this method, so deletions seems like the right step.
 * Jannikp97 (talk) 19:53, 15 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete This pretty clearly fails WP:GNG. There's some discussion of it on web forums, but it doesn't appear to have garnered any sort of significant attention in reliable sources at this point. SportingFlyer  T · C  23:07, 19 May 2024 (UTC)


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