Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anarchism and Marxism

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 keep. Anas ^talk? 23:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anarchism and Marxism

This page should be deleted because every part of the article is of bias and distortions. Its entry is not encyclopedic, it reads more as an essay trying to bring a point across than a factual work. It fails its stated job of trying to bring the differences between Anarchy and Marxism. It only shows what the author describes what anarchy is and how Marxism is bad and as such redundant with a score of other articles and once again biased. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CmrdMariategui (talk • contribs).

Keep since there are many sources from which the similarities and differences can be identified, but needs a thorough rewrite and shortening. Itsmejudith 10:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and edit into shape. Important topic, lots of useful references. BobFromBrockley 11:08, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Delete A complete overhaul is needed. If no attempt at such an overhaul. I would push strongly for a deletion. --CmrdMariategui 11:27, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Keep Obviously there has been interaction between the philosophical founders of both political theories, and interaction between active proponents of both since their founding. The 5 references at the bottom are evidence of that for purposes of article notability and verifiability. However a) this article needs point by point citation throughout or almost any reader will have to assume A + B = C Original Research and b) Much of it needs a rewrite to conform to an historical perspective instead of a conclusary one. The introduction would be the place to start, to clearly define the mandate not so much of the two groups as the wikipedia article on them. Readers need to know that this article is about philosophical and historical relationships, not an essay that someone made up in school one day. -Markeer 12:33, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per user Markeer Taprobanus 17:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, Markeer is correct and this topic has had academic treatment. It was probably a great article in the context of Wikipedia ca. 2004, but now has serious sourcing and attribution problems just because our standards have risen. The proper approach should be to improve the article. --Dhartung | Talk 21:26, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as WP:IDONTLIKEIT isn't a reason to delete. Pats Sox Princess 01:18, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but re-write. It has serious original research issues, but the debate was born almost at the same time as both ideologies where, so it is beyond notable. And of course:WP:IDONTLIKEIT.--Cerejota 07:37, 20 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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