Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Painful Reality: Misrepresentations of Black Women in Advertisements

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The result was speedy delete. This is an obvious case of WP:SNOW, and allowing this to sit here for 7 days will only give this undeserved validation. Therefore, I'm closing this now. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 18:34, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A Painful Reality: Misrepresentations of Black Women in Advertisements[edit]

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Alright, this is the third article about African American women made in the last hour. Taking this to the Admin's noticeboard 123chess456 (talk) 18:31, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete-it's written as an essay, and probably isn't worth a standalone article. Sources are not very good either. Thekillerpenguin (talk) 18:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Epic WP:NPOV fail. See also Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion. In a sane world there would be some way to CSD this thing. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:40, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete rather obvious personal essay. Guy (Help!) 08:26, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete While this is a well written, thought out essay, it's still an essay.--Auric talk 13:22, 19 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - while every word may be true, it's not an encyclopedia article. We don't publish original research. That's a purpose of college degrees and academic journals. Bearian (talk) 16:36, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As others have said, an essay. Dougweller (talk) 17:30, 21 April 2014 (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.