Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Existentialist anarchism

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 delete‎. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 16:04, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Existentialist anarchism (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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For years this article has existed as what amounts to an argumentative essay, attempting to demonstrate links between existentialism and anarchism. None of the cited sources ever appeared to describe an "existentialist anarchism", nor does it appear this term has significant coverage in reliable sources.

Google Scholar only turns up 13 hits, none of which go into the term in any real depth.[1] Only three of these sources predate the article, and none use it as anything more than a throwaway term. The only source that appears to go into it in any depth (Wahl 2018) explicitly mentions that he is attempting to develop it into a "philosophy of the future", declaring it to be "all-too-neglected" by both present-day philosophers and anarchists. I don't see anything in these sources that would bring the article to a length much longer than a stub.

Given that this article appears to fail to meet our general notability guidelines, I propose it be deleted. There's nothing in the text that's really salvageable, and the only redirect locations I can think of are only tangentially related. Grnrchst (talk) 16:04, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Philosophy and Politics. Grnrchst (talk) 16:04, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - I agree with the nom that the page reads like an essay and there do not seem to be many sources which describe the idea in depth. The other sources whch use the term (or "anarco-existentialism") appear to be using it in different ways so it is difficult to use them to write a sourced coherent page. JMWt (talk) 06:30, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. In an earlier discussion on the article talk page I suggested it might be notable, but I'm convinced otherwise by Grnrchst's evidence. Maybe worth writing up a little bit about the Wahl article on Existentialism? -- asilvering (talk) 02:33, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per the talk page discussion: unclear scope, only loose affiliation between existentialism and anarchism in available sources, potential citogenesis fluffing this concept this concept beyond its actual influence, article written as an essay, insufficient coverage for a dedicated article and no good candidates for merge targets. czar 12:36, 20 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete -- There is nothing worthwhile here to Redir or Merge. Fails WP:GNG completely for lack of clear reference in WP:RS. Generously, I'd call it WP:SYNTH; more likely WP:OR and WP:NOTESSAY. Cheers, Last1in (talk) 20:39, 20 November 2023 (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.