Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Permissive federalism


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The result was delete. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:07, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Permissive federalism

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tagged for notability for 5 years; unref one-sentence stub Boleyn (talk) 21:41, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, or redirect, or merge the single sentence therein. Bearian (talk) 22:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 13:55, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. &#9733;&#9734;  DUCK IS PEANUTBUTTER &#9734;&#9733; 13:55, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Google search produces no evidence of significant coverage in reliable independent sources. Fails WP:GNG & WP:NOR. No objection to redirecting the single sentence if an appropriate target can be found.--JayJasper (talk) 21:41, 18 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment GBooks and GScholar produce quite a lot of hits from reliable sources - though most of them do seem only to mention it in passing, but in ways that suggest that it has been discussed in depth elsewhere. So far as I can make out, the term originated with a political scientist called Michael D. Reagan (presumably no relative of Ronald) sometime in the 1970s and, judging from GBooks snippets, it gets a chapter in a book called "The New Federalism" that he coauthored in 1981. It certainly looks as if other people discussed the concept - but probably 30 years or more ago and in journals or books that may well not be online. If anyone can find them, we can probably get a keepable article - otherwise, it isn't going to be a disaster to lose the present one. PWilkinson (talk) 18:08, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 00:18, 24 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Merge with Federalism or Federalist. It seems an appropriate place to put it. Preferably with a reference to Michael D Reagan's book. Jh  fireboy  Talk  18:20, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete as a dictionary definition. This is not an expandable encyclopedic concept, in my opinion. Carrite (talk) 02:36, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Dicdefs are out of scope. I do think this could be turned into an encyclopedia article in the future, but what we have now is a dicdef, not an encyclopedic stub. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:28, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
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