Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dalit 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 delete. But userfy on request for improvement. Consensus is that the topic is notable, but that the present content is very poor. Although AfD isn't cleanup, the presence of copyvios, as pointed out by one "keep" opinion, makes deletion mandatory. Sandstein 09:44, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dalit Marxism[edit]

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This seems to be a very scantily sourced essay, and a doubt that the topic is truly notable. The fact that it is nearly incomprehensible is, unfortunately, irrelevant. TheLongTone (talk) 14:39, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The topic may be notable, but this article doesn't show it. Instead, it strays into promotion, for example "We are in the business of bringing Marxism back to where it belongs: lowest in stature and biggest in numbers of the Hindu society, the lower castes. This also means releasing Marxism from the shackles of upper-castes. Marxism can and must do better than being monopolized by the upper-castes...". That is not encyclopaedic writing - that is polemic. (I do rather enjoy the idea of Marxism being the property of the upper castes... Mind you, Marx was from a "wealthy middle-class family", and Engels' family were industrialists.) Peridon (talk) 14:54, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The tone of the article is quite promotional, it maybe because it have nearly 60% copyvio from https://flyingfootage.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/a-dalit-marxist-manifesto-2/ — Sanskari ^Hangout 16:38, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep a poorly written article (with copyvios) about a thing that has significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject:
- Rao, Anupama (2012): "Stigma and labour: remembering Dalit Marxism", Seminar 633.
- Rao, Anupama (2013). "Revisiting Interwar Thought: Stigma, Labor, and the Immanence of Caste-class". In Cosimo Zene (ed.). The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar: Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-49401-9.
- Rathore, Aakash Singh (2011): "The Romance of Global Justice? Sen's Deparochialization and the Quandary of Dalit Marxism" Indian Journal of Human Development 5 (2).
- Jai Bhim Comrade (according to Barry Maxwell, 2015. No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries: Global Anarchisms. PM Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-62963-098-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link))

Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 09:18, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draftify it for now. I am not sure if it is a copyvio or just a stub with a WP:QUOTEFARM problem. Ceosad (talk) 15:01, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify and remove from main WP. It is too much of WP:OR and bad copyedit for now. Zezen (talk) 00:37, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:31, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —UY Scuti ^Talk 17:23, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 22:57, 29 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Deletion is not a substitute for a clean-up. AusLondonder (talk) 23:44, 29 December 2015 (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.