Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legal history of Chinese Americans


 * 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. without prejudice to future creation of a new article on Legal status of Chinese people in America j⚛e deckertalk 03:56, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Legal history of Chinese Americans

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This article has been troubled with various issues from its creation date, some of which has been mentioned on the article talk page. The creator and affiliated people of said user have abandoned resolving the issues. There's no clear scope and most of its content is unsuitable if one can call it content. The article history has been riddled with copyright violations from its creation and from its recreation. The remnants should be treated carefully in that regards too, close paraphrasing and such. In conclusion, it would be best to delete this article rather than try to go the lengthy and cumbersome way to fix this (there was two plus years for that). If someone decides to recreate this article, I doubt any current content would be salvaged anyway than to start afresh. Besides, there's no point in saving an article history filled with copyright violations. Cold Season (talk) 17:51, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:11, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:NUKEANDPAVE. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 21:25, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Clear case of TNT required. The Opium War and subsequent treaties are way off-topic and the other sections seem to be a bizarre tangle of legislation and news items with no cohesive structure. Philg88 ♦talk 09:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep (unless there is a good merge target) -- The article and the name do nmot wholly match, but that is curable, perhaps Legal status of Chinese people in America. The article is essntially a time-line of historical laws and legal decisions.  That is worth having.  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:07, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * The author pledged to recreate it properly, only too abandon it in this state... The article is a remnant of something comprising a chronological overview, with the most-blatant issues cleansed, thus the listing in its stead (it gives an idea at how much needed to be removed). People have wasted too much time to salvage it, but feel free to do your attempt for this keep or merge (and prove me wrong, I doubt it; it's more likely that an attempt would focus on starting over). The topic is worth having, this content is not. --Cold Season (talk) 20:38, 6 June 2014 (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.