Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moderate Libertarianism


 * 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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 05:33, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Moderate Libertarianism
Dicdef, which adds nothing useful but the definition of either term. It was replaced with a redirect to Libertarianism, but reverted back by the creator, who has also edited Template:Libertarianism sidebar and Moderate accordingly. Gsearch for both terms shows 68 hits outside of Wikipedia, very few of which are actually relevant to the object of the article - most use them in a colloquial manner and don't refer to it as an ideological entity, as the article's author asserts (it must be noted that the author runs a website entitled "The Moderate Libertarian").  P h a e d r i e l   ♥   tell me   - 08:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. It literally reads as a dicdef (with some linkspam on the side) -- Samir   धर्म 09:28, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Quote the first line "People are using the term "moderate libertarian" to define their political stance. There is no clear definition of this, outside of the definitions for 'moderate' and 'libertarian.'", and laugh out loud. Clearly Delete material, given that it's a dicdef of something that doesn't appear to exist. Vizjim 10:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete get a blog KleenupKrew 10:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Not sure that "Get a blog" is a useful comment if we're trying to be friendly to newcomers.  + + Lar: t/c 16:44, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete &mdash; Ravikiran 11:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I would consider myself a "moderate libertarian" and I'm not seeing the need for this article. The original attempt of doing a redirect struck me as a good approach, and I see no signs that the article author tried to work with anyone on it, (no talk page discussion). Merge anything valuable (lose the links, I think) with Libertarianism and redirect, protect if necessary.  + + Lar: t/c 16:44, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as dicdef and nn locution; I don't think there's anything valuable to merge, and so we needn't to preserve the contribution history with a redirect. (Altogether unrelatedly, IMHO, a moderate libertarian is like a moderately pregnant woman; nearly categorically, libertarianism is binary.  This proviso, of course, has nothing to do with deletion, and, were the term used generally used/were the entry ever able to be anything other than dicdef, I'd support keep.)  Joe 23:29, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Angus McLellan (Talk) 17:42, 17 May 2006 (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.