Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lives of workers during the industrial revolution


 * 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. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Lives of workers during the industrial revolution

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This article is very unencyclopedic, and there are many fragments. Logan | Talk 20:32, 20 April 2009 (UTC) 
 * Keep The article is awful, but I don't see what's unencyclopedic about the topic (which has been the subject of large numbers of books [for instance The Making of the English Working Class], academic papers, TV shows, museums, etc) and the nomination doesn't identify any guidelines which it breaches. Nick-D (talk) 08:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 27 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as an arbitrary sub-topic of industrial revolution. Seems like the main article has the subject covered, and is better written and better sourced. Ham Pastrami (talk) 04:24, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:17, 4 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete the article has no online references and more to the point the article industrial revolution covers the same information in great and well referenced detail. This should be deleted and should instead be a redirect ot the main article which really is better written and sourced. Capitalismojo (talk) 02:49, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This seems to be a POV fork, or something close to one. When I start thinking about all that would need to be done to salvage it, it quickly adds up to almost entirely starting over. Gigs (talk) 05:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge anything worth keeping into the main Industrial Rev article. Lord Cornwallis (talk) 11:07, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as a dupe of Industrial Revolution. There is nothing worth salvaging that I can see, so it is probably best to just can it. Tavix | Talk  11:47, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing worth merging and not a plausible redirect. If we started a proper article, there would be better titles. DGG (talk) 00:27, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Now this i hate this article as it stands is an unholy abortion that should be burned to the ground. However, the topic is eminently wikipedic (i won't say encyclopedic) given the low standards around here and the important social and political history this could encompass. However, I'm not inclined to fix it, and clearly none of the mugs around me are either (though maybe someone should pull one or two of the ARS people off the urgent saving project they're doing now to save the latest pokemon article). Failing that, this article as it stands should go. Pity.Bali ultimate (talk) 00:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep There are many books and encylopedias about this topic. It is our explicit editing policy to build upon such a fragmentary start and so deletion is utterly inappropriate.  Colonel Warden (talk) 11:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Pointless repetition of industrial revolution article. DreamGuy (talk) 00:46, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, not even really a POV fork, more of a style fork of Industrial Revolution (well written vs. poorly written). KillerChihuahua?!? 22:54, 8 May 2009 (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.