Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Liberal coalition


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The result was   delete. obvious WP:OR / WP:SYNTH slakr  \ talk / 12:34, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Liberal coalition

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Never has a so well-sourced article been nominated for deletion. Unfortunately, this appears to be a very glaring case of WP:OR. This article is entirely sourced to print books so I have not been able to check each one, however, I do have two Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism and Hubert Humphrey and neither of these texts use "Liberal coalition" as a proper name. They may include phrases like "a liberal coalition was formed" to refer to various coalitions that have come into being at one time or another but the article indicates the existence of a "Liberal coalition" (proper name) in the United States as a substantial and enduring concept in political science, which it doesn't appear to be. In addition to the above two books I have done an extensive web search - as well as searching the archives of Current History and trying to look this up in the Oxford Handbook of Political Science - and the only use of the phrase "Liberal coalition" (proper name) to refer to an ordered, organized entity is in reference to transient political groupings, not an organized, formal, enduring entity which the article veers between strongly implying and directly indicating. A more appropriate article is Modern liberalism in the United States, which correctly describes a concept versus a thing. For the same reasons I think Conservative Coalition will also need to be deleted, but I haven't had time to more thoroughly review it yet. BlueSalix (talk) 15:04, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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