Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of liberal publications in the United Kingdom


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The result was DELETE. postdlf (talk) 03:05, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

List of liberal publications in the United Kingdom

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Unreferenced POV article. Delete as per the same rationale in Articles for deletion/List of right-wing publications in the United Kingdom (2nd nomination). Political labeling of mainstream publications is extremely problematic and POV. First of all, what is liberal? Classical liberal or welfare liberal? Economic liberal or fiscal liberal? Second of all, it is value-judgement and varies depending upon the political orientation of the agent making the judgement. Reference Desker (talk) 02:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Having looked at this article, this has even more problems. The term "liberal" is open to even more dispute than "right-wing" with some considering it left-wing, some considering it economic freedom, and some personal freedom. And whilst the right-wing publications at least had a clearly identifiable list of nasty publications done by fringe fascist groups, there's only two publications in this list that unambiguously self-define as liberal (Liberator and The Liberal). I would still be happy to consider an article about perceived political affiliations in the UK based on consensus in reliable sources, but the affiliations are too subjective to be presented as fact. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 07:57, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - I think the decision to split the List of Newspapers... list by ideology was ill-advised. There are inherent problems with inclusion parameters. Carrite (talk) 17:06, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete The topic lacks sources and is too relative and subjective. Colonel Warden (talk) 21:07, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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