Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Economic repression in the Soviet Union (2nd nomination)


 * 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 delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  07:45, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

Economic repression in the Soviet Union
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This article was previously nominated for deletion on June 28, 2016. The result of the discussion was delete. Nevertheless, the article has been recreated. There is barely any indication of any improvement in the article from the previous version—while this version is very slightly longer and does use a handful of sources (the previous version used none), it does not substantively address or remedy the issues raised in the previous AfD (and is in fact inherently unable to do so).

The main criticisms from the previous discussion were:


 * 1) The article is pretending to be a wide-ranging article, which it is not (as per ). As before, the article purports to be about "economic repression" in general but its grand total of 7 sentences (that's it; that's the whole article) are entirely about Dekulakization and the Holodomor, already covered at length by existing articles.
 * 2) This is not a term used in the literature either of mainstream economic history or of Marxism... A generalized treatment under the topic head we have here, at least at this point, would be overreach verging on Original Research. (as per ). This was was true then, is still true now. The article was, but the template was  by the main author with the note multiple WP:RS have written about the topic; see the respective articles in the sb for examples. In fact, none of the sources cited in the article (reliable or otherwise) use the term economic repression or even anything akin to it. The few sources the articles uses are about dekulakization and the Holodomor—and we have articles for that.
 * 3) The first sentence fails to properly define the subject (as per ). Still the case, although the content of the first sentence has changed, the new version still fails to define the subject. Instead, it simply lists two apparent examples of "economic repression": forced collectivization or dekulakization of industry (again, we have articles for this), followed by the apparent motives for such policies: with the intention of artificially stimulating economic growth or confiscating property from individuals for the distribution of wealth. No citations are given whatsoever for why such policies should come under the header of "economic repression", and the motives overwhelmingly appear to be the author's own personal speculation. The reader is left clueless as to what economic repression actually is (as opposed to what some purported examples of it are, or why it happened, in the views of the author).

To summarize this article is at best a needless (and pitifully short) WP:CFORK, and at worst, insofar as it groups them under a title that isn't actually used in the scholarly literature, WP:OR/WP:SYNTH. Brusquedandelion (talk) 03:33, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History, Politics,  and Russia. Brusquedandelion (talk) 03:33, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  04:09, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article is a loose grouping of events under a title which does not appear to be used in RIS to describe this grouping, or anything close to it. The nomination statement sets the issues out very well. Mccapra (talk) 08:27, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete Pretty clear this is original research and synthesis, with no actual content not already covered in other articles. The sources used are about other topics covered elsewhere, such as the Holodomor, not specifically about "economic repression". AusLondonder (talk) 20:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 21:31, 23 March 2024 (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.