Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unaffiliated


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:10, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Unaffiliated

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This is a dicdef, and a misleading one at that, as it completely omits the concept of "unaffiliated voters". I was thinking about moving it to "religiously unaffiliated", but the article claims that's a subset of "unaffiliated", as opposed to "secular unaffiliated". The Google Scholar and JSTOR links also don't rank this sense of the word highly. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Spurious definition focussing on one particular way in which a person or organisation can lack affiliation.TheLongTone (talk) 19:05, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV content fork from atheism article, undue focus on one minor use of the word. Binksternet (talk) 19:14, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete POV content fork - undue focus on the use of a word. Hipocrite (talk) 19:17, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete as an unbalanced dicdef. No point moving to something like "religiously unaffiliated" because that wouldn't fix the dicdef part. Dricherby (talk) 21:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's a dicdef, and only a partial one at that as it only covers one possible meaning of a much more generic word - there's a multitude of different ways in which one can be not affiliated with something. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 16:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Move to wikictionary as it tries to define a term. -Abhishikt (talk) 00:42, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It doesn't define it correctly, but instead tries to claim it's specifically a religion-based term, and so it doesn't belong in wictionary as it stands. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 00:56, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed, it needs to be cleaned-up first before moving. Just checcked that http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unaffiliated already exists.
 * So Delete.


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 17:30, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Atheism-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 17:33, 8 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's just a POV fork; it was created as a coatrack for claims which the creator had tried to include in our existing article on atheism. bobrayner (talk) 08:08, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete obvious POV fork. Guy (Help!) 11:15, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete for being POV pushing in a new article that serves no legitimate purpose. The term has lots of other definitions, and this one is not the primary one. Other articles already cover the topic well so even if we came up with a better title for the concept present in this article it's redundant. DreamGuy (talk) 01:25, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.