Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/European superculture hypothesis


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 00:12, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

European superculture hypothesis
The whole article is original research -- and one of the most vile variations of such original research, namely the kind that doesn't limit itself to one article, but tries to insert itself into a variety of other articles as well (e.g. see creation of articles Celtic Europe, Germanic Europe, Latin Europe etc). There's certainly lots of things that can be spoken about cultural divisions in Europe -- and for linguistic and religions divisions as well. But this overall "hypothesis" that conflates culture and history, objectivity and subjectivity, fact and research into one single thing, and tries to lift artificial concrete border where the reality is much more fluid and abstract -- ugh, this is a horrid and ugly thing; less a description of reality and more of a original-research modelization thereof. Delete. Aris Katsaris 10:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I merely tried to create a bridge, with existing information between those 4 "[...]Europe" articles, I know it's far (and further) from perfect, and I wouldn't mind it being deleted but I still think there should be some embodying article between these 4 articles.Any ideas? Sander 11:10, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Culture of Europe could certainly be heavily improved (with maps and the like) to include/explain the cultural divisions that exist in the continent. But that's a different thing altogether than creating an article about a "hypothesis" that tries to gather together already flawed articles under one umbrella, thus enhancing their flaws by superimposition rather than reduce them by factuality. Aris Katsaris 19:24, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that would be the best, but do we in fact need these articles? All four of them (to me) are filled with culturalism-nationalism. Shouldn't they be deleted as well. Sander 21:15, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete original research. Your idea of creating a link shows you plan OR.  May I suggest you find someone else who has created what you want in print, and then write an article about this work?Obina 12:35, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Original research, irrelevant data. Behemoth 13:30, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Original research, unsourced. And shouldn't the four other articles, Latin Europe, Germanic Europe, Celtic Europe, and Slavic Europe, all be AfD'd on the seme grounds? Lukas (T. 15:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as original research. --Ter e nce Ong 16:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete: The article itself says The term is quite inaccurate. Talking about the four language groups separately, however, makes sense. Peter Grey 13:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Sigh, you can stop saying delete, even I (the creator) want it to be deleted Sander 14:07, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. The Slavic Europe is currently quite unsorted rant although there are no fatal errors. Pavel Vozenilek 00:34, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ;) I don't mean to piss you off Sander, I just wanted to vote. --Khoikhoi 04:17, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Or edit count, perhaps? ;) - Mailer Diablo 00:12, 10 March 2006 (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.