Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White male

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 redirect to White people. Davewild (talk) 09:53, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

White male[edit]

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This article was brought to light by User:Dbvann on WP:NPOVN where multiple administrators and editors agreed that it should taken to AfD UplinkAnsh (talk) 08:23, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Those administrators and editors were wrong. "White male" is a plausible search term. Plausible search terms shouldn't be redlinks. You see, to my way of thinking, white male and white males ought to be redirect pages, or disambiguation pages, for the same reason that black males is a redirect to black people: an end-user using that as a search term ought to find some information. If something shouldn't be a redlink then it shouldn't be at AfD.—S Marshall T/C 20:46, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I see I've failed to suggest where it should redirect to; sorry about that. It should point to White man.—S Marshall T/C 20:49, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

White man is a dab page which then refers back to White male - that would be circular. Colonel Warden (talk) 00:31, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I shouldn't think that particular issue will be beyond the closer's abilities to fix, though. :)—S Marshall T/C 02:22, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The topic is highly notable, being covered in numerous works such as Culture and Identity‐Protective Cognition: Explaining the White‐Male Effect in Risk Perception, Alien nation: white male paranoia and imperial culture in the United States, White male identity development: The key model, Affirmative Action and the White Male in America, &c. Colonel Warden (talk) 00:31, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to White people, possibly merge some stuff. 76.66.203.138 (talk) 05:46, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 02:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 02:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to white people. A complete article on this topic would largely duplicate the information found there anyhow. Gobonobo ^T ^C 22:39, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect Agree, the suggested redirect is clearly the correct way to go hereAjbpearce (talk) 18:57, 12 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to White people as suggested. The current article cannot help but become a WP:POVFORK. If someone wants to write about perceptions of the white male in American culture, there are a number of academic journals that exist for that purpose; some of them are even open access. RJC ^Talk_Contribs 21:21, 12 November 2010 (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.