Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medieval invasions of Britain

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The result was delete. JForget 01:11, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval invasions of Britain[edit]

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I never like taking purely "bad" articles to AFD, it not being cleanup and all, but this one warrants it I fear.

In short, it's a violation of WP:NPOV. Unreferenced and full of statements of an entirely dubious nature, it tries to take an entirely arbitrary period (is 450AD medieval anyway?), then pick out selections. The result is not good.

I realise that this comes close to the definition "AFD is not cleanup", and if you think that the article could be made a go of, that it is better to have something than nothing even if the something risks completely mi-portraying events, then I would not be surprised. But needless to say, I disagree. - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 16:51, 18 July 2010 (UTC) - Jarry1250 ^{[Humorous? Discuss.]} 16:51, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Not sure about this. there are lots of similar artciels. But this one seems so poor that it smacks of some kids school report.I also think that as Britain has not been invaded that often we hardley need sperate articels on differing eras.Slatersteven (talk) 18:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Pointless unreferenced article duplicates information better presented in other articles. Edison (talk) 19:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Redirect. Probably a good faith contribution, but this article doesn't seem to have any use that History of England doesn't already cover. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 20:03, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as redundant and of such low quality it is not likely to be improved without a total rewrite. Replace with redirect to England in the Middle Ages patsw (talk) 13:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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