Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwestern European people


 * 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. Eddie891 Talk Work 01:56, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Northwestern European people

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This article appears to be massive WP:SYNTH. WP:REFBOMBED with any use of the phase "Northwestern European people" in the literature, regardless of context. I can find zero evidence that "Northwestern European people" is an independently noteworthy topic, as there appear to be no sources that specifically discuss "Northwestern European people" as a pan-ethnic group. See also Northwestern European Americans and Northwestern European Australians, and Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_73 for previous discussion of the issue. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * To gives examples, in the first sentence of the non-lead section of the article, it states that Northwestern European people have been identified as a distinct pan-ethnic grouping. They have been researched in academia in historical, cultural, linguistic and anthropological studies.Neither of the three citations with quotes back up the first sentence's claim that Northwestern European people "have been identified as a distinct pan-ethnic grouping", that's clearly a novel synthesis. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I have now nominated Northwestern European Americans, Northwestern European Australians and Northwestern European Canadians for deletion, see Articles for deletion/Northwestern European Canadians. Hemiauchenia (talk) 06:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete as synthesis. So many different usages are being crammed together that the page ultimately conveys no information beyond what applying basic English syntax to the title would yield, i.e., "people from a northwestern part of Europe". XOR&#39;easter (talk) 05:00, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete as both synthesis, and being pointless. As mentioned above, one learns nothing from reading the article other than "this is what people from NW Europe are like", which is already adequately covered on the individual articles for the distinct ethnic groups that make up this apparently-made-up conglomeration. ƒirefly  ( t · c ) 10:22, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete As original research. jps (talk) 10:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, topic appears to be entirely WP:OR. Devonian Wombat (talk) 10:59, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:SYNTH and note that the article lacks coverage of the (blood) quantum black hole that forms when a Northwest European mates with a South Eastern European. -Roxy the grumpy dog . wooF 14:42, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Made-up topic. Arbitrary classifactions by demographers and a compass-point do not define a "pan-ethnic grouping". We already have too much articles about made-up "pan"-groupings here, but this one beats them all. –Austronesier (talk) 13:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - Per everything said above. Jurassic Classic 767  (talk &#124; contribs) 18:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)