Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Functional states index


 * 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. I have considered the proposed alternative approach, but it would still violate WP:SYNTH. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Functional states index

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The term has zero Google hits, which probably means it's the brainchild of the editor who created the article. While not an uninteresting idea, it is clearly in breach of WP:NOR and should be deleted. Biruitorul Talk 14:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. It looks like an obvious original research claim - as the nominator said, there are no Google hits for this. JulieSpaulding (talk) 16:24, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete No ghits so fails WP:OR Computerjoe 's talk 19:27, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Complete non-sense. South Bay    (talk) 20:20, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed alternative approach
The article probably does need to go because it is indeed original research. However, it is not nonsense, as stated above by one of the editors. It suggests the interesting and important idea of comparing existing international indices. I have proposed on the article's talk page an alternative approach to presenting the information behind the article in a way that does not include creating a new index and should not violate NOR. I hope an interested party (such as the author of this article) will consider the suggested alternative so as to allow the information to remain in Wikipedia.


 * WagePeace (talk) 18:08, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


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