Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of military dictatorships


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 13:30, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

List of military dictatorships

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Similar article to List of dictatorships and List of modern dictators in Latin America, and violates WP:OR and WP:POV. These articles are all created by User:Hanteng, using similar references and graphs. This seems like spamming. Jsjsjs1111 (talk) 21:00, 6 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep:
 * The list contains complete time-series data of the DD index for military dictatorship, completely different for the aforementioned articles or lists.
 * The list contains much more reliable, consistent and comprehensive information then the one currently listed in the main entry article Military dictatorship (see the sections of Current cases and Past cases. Note that the original sections contain information that very likely violates WP:OR and WP:POV.
 * In contrast, based on the DD index (thus definitely NOT original research made by Wikipedians), the information now listed here in List of military dictatorships satisifies WP:SUBSTANTIATE and has much lower risks of WP:NPOV as it is attributed to a source and a group of researchers whose DD index work is peer-reviewed.
 * (I hope to demonstrate how such country-based (and thus country-coded) data can be best curated in Wikimedia projects, possibly including Wikidata in the future, more see one of my Wikimania 2014 submissions here: A data curation hub for students, journalists and writers: Country data reuse and coordination, which is currently under review. ) --(comparingChinese Wikipedia vs Baidu Baike by hanteng) 07:32, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 15:49, 7 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, WP:OR and WP:POV. Wikipedia should not be used to give highlight to the results of one or several scholars, especially when it comes to political problems that involve actual ideological controversies. There is no clear and universal criterion of dictatorship. Thus Wikipedia should not accept one as orthodox and make a list from it. --Snorri (talk) 16:21, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:56, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. Enough well sourced to meet WP:V and WP:NOR. List of dictators is really a list censored by Wikipedia: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, ... our great encyclopedia fails here for no reason! jni (delete)...just not interested 20:19, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete, so as Js.Apollo Augustus Koo (talk) 11:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. (content deleted) so I strongly support him. Wikipedia should not be used to give highlight to the results of one or several scholars, no matter how many times the source has been cited or how popular it is. Wikipedia also should not be used to give a list in grey area, although I can't see anyone mentioned any citation that mostly contradicts to those listed in the article. And if there is, this article still should be deleted rather than list various opinions. I consider an article's neutrality according to handsome Wikipedia editors like (content deleted) rather than reliable sources, so it's a very tendentious article. --The Master (talk) 01:50, 10 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Relisting comment: Fixed template fail; actual relist was: Spartaz Humbug! 20:42, 15 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, slakr  \ talk / 03:11, 16 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - POV list. What's a dictatorship? What's a military dictatorship? Is every political system dominated by the military a dictatorship? In reality there is interplay in every political system between multiple actors, even when there seems to be only one. There is interplay between civilian and military authority, even when it may appear the later is in exclusive control. Every country is different, every situation is different — things evolve over time. This list pretends that there is such a thing as immutable and unchanging "military dictatorships." Carrite (talk) 16:12, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
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