Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religious stratification

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 Keep. The Placebo Effect (talk) 22:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Religious stratification[edit]

This is not an encyclopedic article, it's an essay. Circeus (talk) 05:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, worse, it's an unsourced essay. AnteaterZot (talk) 08:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I cleaned up the article. It's very sourced. I'm not sure what "essay" means. How is this article more "essay" then Social stratification? --brew crewer (yada, yada) 09:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Sourced adequate, term seems to be in use in sociology. DGG (talk) 10:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This reads like an essay, and the topic could be perfectly adequately covered in the more general [[social stratification] article. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 12:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Seems to be quite adequately referenced, and a term of some currency in the social sciences. AfD is not a substitute for editing. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Well-sourced. Clean-up needs aren't a reason to delete. Epbr123 (talk) 15:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Because it is sourced doesn't make it less of an essay. Circeus (talk) 18:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Again, clean-up needs aren't a reason to delete. Epbr123 (talk) 18:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The article is well sourced, and covers an important topic in stratification research. If all such similar sorts of inequality topics (like race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender) were collapsed into Social stratification, the page would be incredibly cumbersome. 66.26.87.169 (talk) 01:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is an important, well researched topic within the social sciences. If it reads like an essay here and there, a little editing will take care of that. Consider the role of religious stratification in Iraq - a notable subtopic that isn't covered in the article but certainly could be. Valerius (talk) 03:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This article is an essay. One could equally well write an essay on height stratification. Pick a topic and then mix it with your favourite "thing I don't like". Doesn't wash with me. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 05:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment anyone want to popose a clear distinction between 'essay" and "encyclopedia article" ??DGG (talk) 06:09, 8 December 2007 (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.