Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Latin cultures


 * 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. W.marsh 22:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Latin cultures

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The article is based on a concept that seemingly has no real sources to confirm it besides that, it is completely unsourced, full of disputable statements, let's simply say that it's primarly composed of Original Research without any source to back it up. As a member of WikiProject Puerto Rico I dislike doing this to a page involving my people but I can't in good consiense ignore all the issues on it. - 凶 01:54, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Consensus on the talk page is that it's original research and POV. Delete. Placeholder account 03:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Disambiguate to any articles on respective cultures that are considered Latin. No comment on current content.  See Latin peoples (linguistic) for an example of one way to do it.  FrozenPurpleCube 04:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article is a complete speculation and presents no sources at all, and I really do not know what a "self-identification as Latin" means! This is POV and original research. The Ogre 11:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is a complete mess, a hodgepodge of wildly different (unsourced) thoughts and claims.  As so often, there could be a half-way decent article here, perhaps on what is essentially the stereotype of "Latin" sensuality and expressiveness.  At best this would be a careful documentation of the way in which the idea of a "Latin culture" circulates in assumptions about music, food, family life, and so on.  But at present the article does little more than reproduce such stereotypes--and it doesn't even do that well!  Alternatively, one could also discuss some of the shared cultural characteristics of (and these might be better terms) Mediterranean or Southern European peoples, and those influenced by those cultures (above all in Latin America).  This would have to be done with care and sensitivity.  Maybe at some later point someone will come by and write a worthwhile article on this topic.  But they would have to start from scratch, and this article should go.  --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 13:38, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Quite so! The Ogre 14:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete current POV/OR content and then recreate as a redirect to Latino, which is a superior article touching on the same basic subject.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 15:08, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't support a redirect to Latino as that mostly seems to be about Latin Americans, and nothing about the European cultures. FrozenPurpleCube 16:19, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point ... I hadn't thought of that.  Perhaps, then, redirect it back to Latin (disambiguation) and clear up that section of the main dab page?  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 16:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Don't Delete The article should be corrected, but not deleted. Latin cultures is a legitimate subject.  The basic premises of the article are not incorrect and not based on POV or original research as some here claim.  User: Josean Figueroa.  -June 9, 2007
 * And, pray tell, what are the article's basic premisses? The article seems to me a total fabrication, claiming to known the "self-identification as Latin" of various nations (where's the source?) I am Portuguese, and in Portugal we speak of Latin cultures only in a linguistic sense. The rest is basically stereotypes we find insulting. The Ogre 16:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article is a stereotypical fabrication, an example of "folk sociology" (much as folk etymology), based upon typical, even if more or less hidden, racialist assumptions. Velho 18:44, 10 June 2007 (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.