Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hispanos

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The result was soft delete‎ . Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 12:14, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hispanos

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The term "Hispanos" seems to be rarely used in scholarship dealing with the population this article is about - and from what I can tell none of the sources this article cites establish notability. The Census citation's link no longer works, but from what I can tell the US Census Bureau does not recognize "Hispano" or anything similar as a cohesive ancestry or ethnic group (a code list from 2010, pages 295-296, I've found doesn't use the term at all). "The Spanish Surname Criterion" defines "Hispano" as equivalent to the modern category "Hispanic and Latino Americans" - although the "native Spanish Americans" it mentions seem to be the descendants of Spanish-speaking settlers in the Southwest this article claims to describe. The two sources with archived links are both about Hispanos of New Mexico specifically, and the Alexander B. King source is just about historical Californios. So, none of this article's sources actually establish that the term "Hispanos" is widely used to refer to the descendants of early Spanish and Mexican settlers in the American Southwest as a whole.

Additionally, this article's exact scope is unclear. The lead sentence mentions "independent Mexico" but the article also mentions Louisiana Isleños.

Speaking of scope, I'm not sure the article's subject, descendants of Spanish-speaking inhabitants of the territories Mexico ceded to the US in 1848, actually do constitute a meaningful ethnic or cultural group - the sources cited don't establish this.

It's also noteworthy that several people in this article's talk page have previously objected to its existence and that most of the article's content is unsourced. Erinius (talk) 08:55, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Erinius (talk) 08:55, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:31, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 11:20, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not a notable subgroup of latinos in the United States, very unclear scope, fails GNG. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:29, 20 April 2023 (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.