Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fascism in Africa

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 14:07, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fascism in Africa

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I followed this article for over a decade, and I think it's safe to say that it appears impossible to convert into something useful for an Encyclopedia.

The current article consists essentially of three parts. First well-referenced overview where with inputs from academics questioning the existence of the article subject. Then a few examples of presence of fascist movements on the continent, but with the exception of SA these are essentially presence of European fascist movements in diaspora/colonial frameworks. Here there is really no WP:RS that connect the dots. Even if we are to accept the argument that Egyptian Greenshirts was a fascist movement, there is nothing sourced that would connect the Egyptians with South African far right politics. Whether And lastly some listing of leaders and groups that have been accused of fascism (with 'fascism' being reduced to a pejorative), conflating authoritarianism and fascism. There is nothing that glues together the article, apart from OR. Soman (talk) 13:02, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I have just spent quite a while looking at the article and thinking and I agree with User:Soman|Soman. This article should have no place here. --Bduke (talk) 07:24, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and Africa. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:30, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment A Google Scholar and books search on the topic yields a few sources discussing fascism in Africa. Perhaps TNT should be considered instead Chamaemelum (talk) 09:52, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, but isn't this more or less what we have in the article at the moment, different scholars debating whether some aspects of African politics can be referred to 'fascism' or not? In that case we should have an article on the scholarly debate in itself, without any pretense of listing different organizations. --Soman (talk) 13:51, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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