Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Racial separation

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 00:55, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)

Racial separation

 * Delete: Poorly written, blatently racist article. Should either be rewritten from scratch or deleted. Kaldari 18:02, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: POV, badly written. Binadot 18:50, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Please read the VfD instructions next time. I do like numbered lists, though, so I'm keeping them. &mdash;Ben Brockert (42) 02:18, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Brocker's comment refers to the fact that the vote format of this VfD was separated, or at least segregated. I've fixed this for consistency and to restore the TOC at the top of the page. --fvw *  17:37, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)
 * "t". &mdash;Ben Brockert (42) 01:31, Jan 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Missing many years of post civil-war history, and the relevant info is elsewhere. Not respectful (if not downright racist).  There could be an NPOV article under this title, but in it's current form this needs to be deleted unless it is substantially improved.  (I would rather see it improved than deleted, but still...)  --L33tminion | (talk) 04:57, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Use cleanup for cases like this. Gazpacho 05:16, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yikes! --Zappaz 05:57, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to racial segregation. Neutralitytalk 06:08, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Not the same thing. Segregation is living & working in the same area but using different facilities. Separation is living in separate political entities. I think there's enough to say about separatism to justify its own article (incorporating content from the segregation article). Gazpacho
 * Was reading with an open mind until that last sentence, which made me seriously question the writer's motives. Racist and a bunch of nonsense. Delete. Stombs 06:48, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge cautiously/redirect or Keep. Racial separatism does indeed redirect to Racial segregation - there's no way "racial separatism" and "racial separation" should go to separate places. The second sentence of racial segregation says "The separation may be geographical, but is usually supported by providing services through separate institutions (such as schools) and through similar legal and social structures," which is what Gazpacho says the difference is. Let's see how this evolves. Samaritan 19:58, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete, there is probably not enough here that could be justified merging with Racial segregation without a major NPOV rewrite, borderline. Megan1967 02:08, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Ambivalent about also merging, as this would first need to be NPOVed.  -Sean Curtin 00:35, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think there's anything worth merging. Josh Cherry 02:51, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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