Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Too difficult box


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The result was merge to Charles Clarke. ansh 666 20:40, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Too difficult box

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Looks like it fails WP:GNG with only primary sources supporting the article. Shaded0 (talk) 16:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:53, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep The OPs criticism of the article as it stands is irrelevant. It has wide currency and is an important political concept: see Google and see news.--Penbat (talk) 18:39, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Penbat, while you are permitted to participae in a discussion about an article you crated, it is usual to mention in your comment the fact that you created the article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete unless material is purposed into a page on Clarke's book The 'Too Difficult' Box, this concept fails WP:NEO not merely because the sole source on the page are the lectures in which the term's creator Charles Clarke proposed the term in 2014, but because a JSTOR search comes up empty.  As a page on a political term, it fails WP:NEO, although it may merely be WP:TOOSOON.  However, a page on Clare's 2014 book The 'Too Difficult' Box: The Big Issues Politicians Can't Crack would pass WP:NBOOK.  If  User:Penbat were willing to convert this page into a page on the book.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:58, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge with article on Charles Clarke. Vorbee (talk) 19:52, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:31, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge with Charles Clarke or (to second User:E.M.Gregory's point) merge with a new article on Clarke's book The 'Too Difficult' Box: The Big Issues Politicians Can't Crack. The term does appear to have entered the British political lexicon, but hasn't gained enough traction and general use to warrant an article by itself. Eloquai (talk) 15:38, 25 September 2017 (UTC)


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