Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Orange Book liberalism


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The result was   merge to The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism.  Sandstein  08:19, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Orange Book liberalism

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Non-notable concept with no significant coverage in secondary sources. Anything useful, if there is any, could be merged into The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism. SupernovaExplosion (talk) 16:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC) Disagree strongly, the term Orange Book liberalism is becoming increasingly used with many sources demonstrating this as a term, with no other term with a Wikipedia article being a synonym. A good example of such a source would be this news article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12310041 this well known blog http://www.nextleft.org/2010/05/coming-battle-for-liberalism.html article from prospect magazine http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/06/who-are-the-liberal-democrats/ Total Politics http://www.totalpolitics.com/opinion/157732/would-alliance-work-between-labour-and-the-lib-dems.thtml Total Politics again http://www.totalpolitics.com/blog/159167/can-tim-farron-ride-to-his-partyand39s-rescue.thtml Daily Telegraph http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/julianastle/100077413/did-the-orange-book-pave-the-way-to-coalition-with-the-conservatives/ Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jun/23/liberal-traditions-and-true-colours? etc. If you really want, I can find some more? --Purple1342 (talk) 16:43, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge to The Orange Book: Reclaiming Liberalism, not because the topic is non-notable, but because the articles are really about the same thing. Readers would be better off reading all the material in one place. Borock (talk) 17:55, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Would tend to disagree with that too as there is significant difference between the book and the ideology, the book merely helped spark it. One does not simply merge the liberalism article into the On Liberty article as they are broadly the same thing. The principle should stand here. Give the article time to expand and become more separate from the Orange Book one. --Purple1342 (talk) 19:30, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:42, 29 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge There is an Orange Book and the liberals who support it are occassionally refereed to as "Orange Book Liberals". In order to justify an article we need a source that says it is a commonly used term with a clear definition.  Until then it is just original research.  TFD (talk) 02:40, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
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