Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries under partial or entire dictatorship


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 23:50, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

List of countries under partial or entire dictatorship

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"countries under partial or entire dictatorship" is completely subjetive, who decides which government is dictatorial enough and which one is not? Who decides what is a dictatorship to begin with? The references are not about the issue, but about the trivial intersection of employment rates Cambalachero (talk) 13:46, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Lacks reliable sourcing to verify the claim that each country listed is under "partial or total dictatorship." Even if some Human Rights Watch listing, newspaper article, academic book, UN or US government listing classified each of these countries as such, no source was presented to show that that classification relates in an encyclopedic way to the unemployment rate, as opposed to the lifespan, literacy rate, average temperature, national sport, height above sea level, average height, common blood types, or any other statistic. Edison (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. The combination of dictatorial governments with unemployment rates smells like WP:SYNTHESIS to me. I'm not quite sure what the intended inference is, but it seems WP:INDISCRIMINATE at best. Pburka (talk) 17:51, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete I'm sure the topics of political freedom and employment are already covered in other articles. No need to put them together. Note also that "unemployment" means different things in different places. Lots of people working "off the books" in the USA are making more money than 90% of the people in the world yet are counted as unemployed. So comparing the figures between countries has little value anyway. Steve Dufour (talk) 18:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Criteria is faulty, listing the countries by unemployment without establishing a link between unemployment and forms of govt.  There is room on Wikipedia for listing countries by type of government, but this is not the right title, the right content, or the right criteria, requiring a full rewrite to properly address the topic.  Dennis Brown (talk) 19:18, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Dictatorships + Unemployment = Synthesis. Nwlaw63 (talk) 21:11, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
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 * Strong Delete Violates WP:SYN, lacks reliable sourcing. As pointed out by the nominator, what constitutes "partial or entire dictatorship" is entirely subjective.--JayJasper (talk) 05:08, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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