Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Economy of the Former Yugoslavia


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The result was   delete and redirect to Economy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Bushranger One ping only 18:32, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Economy of the Former Yugoslavia

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Newbie article creator confirmed in their removal of PROD that they don't understand the meaning of WP:OR, but that doesn't make it any less of a policy. Certainly the topic of economic histories of former Yugoslav republics as such exists in some form in the real world, but no reliable source I ever heard of pretends that their disparate paths since 1991 can be summarily ignored by treating them as a single economic entity. Whatever salvageable content exists in this infobox can fit into e.g. a section of Former Yugoslavia without being such an overt WP:SYNTH problem. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 07:57, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article creator said this in explaining the removal of prod: "[...] I complied the economic data by myself mainly by merging the former Republics' finances giving us a representative idea." However, that's precisely what WP:SYNTH forbids, unless this kind of synthesis was also made by a reliable source. GregorB (talk) 09:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Economy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia where it can be mentioned briefly what happened in former republics after the country's breakup. Lumping economies of all the former republics with 20 years of separate development under the same title would necessarily invoke WP:SYNTH to some extent. — Yerpo Eh? 14:44, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, there's even a section there called "Yugoslav hypothetical economy in numbers - 2011". Heh. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 23:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. While well-intentioned, the problems start with the article's title. Which political entity is meant by "the Former Yugoslavia"? The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia or the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia? (This already is a reason not to recommend a redirect.) Then, where the article states, "Today, it is on the road...", what does "it" refer to? No former Yugoslavia is on the road today. By studying the article more closely, it becomes clear what the author means: the result of adding up economic data on the various states into which the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been fragmented: the republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro. We do not even have a category for these former SFRY states, and I don't see that the topic is notable. --Lambiam 15:06, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Economy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia per Yerpo. The 2007 UN map used in the article gives a nice visual definition of what is meant by "The Former Yugoslavia". Treating economies of all successor states as a single contiguous area is WP:SYNTH, especially since economic ties linking them were largely broken due to the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.  Timbouctou ( talk ) 15:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:SYNTH. Without reliable sources publishing that kind of combined data, there is no place for this article. Beagel (talk) 19:11, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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