Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universal Exchange Tax


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. BigDom  talk  08:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Universal Exchange Tax

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No significant coverage in reliable sources. Tagged since March - June 2010, but nothing that shows notability has been added. Appears to be original research. Sjö (talk) 09:21, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete This appears to be somebody's proposal for a specific tax which even quotes a particular rate, and is not approriately sourced or demonstrating the required notability. There is a place in Wikipedia for articles on forms of taxation, and transaction taxes are clearly notable as any lookup of Tobin tax will show. It would be useful to have a general article on the topic which could cite particular proposals of which UET might be one, but this article seems to fall between two stools and it would need to be very different in form. AJHingston (talk) 13:38, 5 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - Lengthy essay on a self-created idea. This is the sort of "Original Research" which is out of bounds at WP, and with good reason. Carrite (talk) 14:58, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:OR and WP:GNG. I found ZERO hits at Google News and likewise at Google Scholar.  Nobody seriously has ever discussed it, much less done any research on the topic, outside of this very article!  Actually, outside of a Huffington Post blog, I can't find any independent and reliable sources about this idea.  It is thus the definition of an idea before its time. Bearian (talk) 21:03, 7 March 2011 (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.