Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/States of the world

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The result was delete. No prejudice to creation as a redirect. ansh 666 09:37, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

States of the world[edit]

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Neologistic phrase coined and used in a single book (the only reference in the article used for the topic itself), and apparently w/o established usage in the further field. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 08:27, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. Happy holidays! ^{Babymissfortune} 09:28, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 09:32, 4 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and possibly redirect to List of sovereign states (the current content has no relation to that topic). This is a dictdef of a jargon term that doesn't appear to be widely used in the field. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:10, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or Redirect to state, this usage borrows from physics and at the state disambiguation page is the first exampl (unlinked) under Physics and chemistry, "State, a complete description of a system in classical mechanics." Smmurphy^(Talk) 21:24, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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