Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French liberal parties


 * 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 nomination was speedy close per WP:SK - not an article, already opened on cfd MartinRe 12:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Category:French liberal parties
redundant and slippery category. What does "liberalism" means in a French context? This is very slippery category, because "liberalism" hasn't got the same sense in the US and in France. In France, "liberalism" refers to economic liberalism, and is associated with right-wing parties, while in the States it is opposed to "conservative". But a party such as the Sarkozy's UMP could be alternatively qualified as "conservative" and "liberal", and includes people from both tendencies!!! This is understandable enough, if one gets that this means that one may be conservative in the social sense and liberal in economics policies. Furthermore, "liberalism", in this French context, is opposed to gaullism, which Jacques Chirac claims to be the heir, a claim laughed out by all political commentators! User:Intangible who created this category has asked for deletion of Category:Far right political parties in France and attempts to substitute the current classification with US criterias, which is a form of ethnocentrism and lack of understanding of the French context, where left/right criterias are used since the French Revolution. Tazmaniacs 12:28, 11 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Comment: This appears to be a misguided attempt to list Category:French liberal parties for deletion. I'm tagging this article for speedy deletion. - Che Nuevara:  Join  the   Revolution 11:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I seem to have made some mistake in the process. I'm actually asking for deletion of Category:French liberal parties. Tazmaniacs 12:35, 11 July 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.