Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global elite

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. (non-admin closure) Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 02:36, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Global elite

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I can't even begin to think of a single guideline that this violates. So far, I see flavors of WP:SOAPBOX, WP:POINT, and political diatribe, with it being very heavy on the soapboxing. This is NOT the place for this kind of material. -- Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 23:31, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that we should salvage any useful sentences from this article and merge it with the Power elite article. After that, this article should become a redirect to the "power elite" article. GVnayR (talk) 23:57, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:30, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The Power elite article redirect will need reverting before any merge can take place. However, the sources notice turns up a number of references to the term "Global elite" so it may be a notable term in its own right. This is NOT the place for this kind of material sounds like WP:IDL, which is not a valid reason for deletion. -- Trevj (talk) 09:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

With that in mind, I think that I will change my vote to keep. GVnayR (talk) 15:08, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -while the article may have some problems, this can be solved through cleanup, not deletion. (AfD is not cleanup.) Additionally, per Trevj's reasons it seems to be a used term. A412 (Talk * C) 23:45, 23 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep with a major rewrite. I have started on it - deleted some of the unsupported soapboxing and added some more reliable sources - but much more needs to be done. The term is used quite a bit at Google News, but I could not find much agreement about what the term means, or if it means anything (as opposed to just partisan/conspiratorial terminology). I don't agree with a merge to 'Power elite' as the terms do not seem to be interchangeable. --MelanieN (talk) 01:37, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.