Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marine plastic pollution


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The result was redirect to Marine debris. (non-admin closure) f  e  minist  02:25, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Marine plastic pollution

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This is copied word-for-word from the cited source, a journal article. Although not a copyright violation (the journal is apparently Creative Commons), Wikipedia should not be a publisher (or republisher, in this case) of primary research reports. See What_Wikipedia_is_not. Peacock (talk) 11:12, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as article is an unencyclopedic essay, and the subject is covered much better at Plastic pollution.  Quasar G  t - c 13:30, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 *  Delete Redirect, as above, this is not our job, and the article is an inferior WP:FORK of the existing Plastic pollution and Marine debris . Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:44, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:46, 8 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Marine debris. This is content fork. My very best wishes (talk) 04:14, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect as above; exactly right.-- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:56, 12 May 2017 (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.