Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/German model

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The result was no consensus. with no prejudice against speedy renomination (non-admin closure) czar ♔ 17:30, 2 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

German model

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Looks like another WP:CFORK of social market economy (SME) [1][2][3] using alternative terminology. It doesn't even link to the latter and has very little actually referenced content. If it intends to be a description of factual data (rather than of ideological underpinnings) then it's a fork of economy of Germany. Either way, a third article (besides the SME and the economy one) can't really be justified. The final part of the article (the only part with some inline refs) is basically used as a WP:SOAPBOX mostly for unrelated matters. Someone not using his real name (talk) 19:31, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. Someone not using his real name (talk) 19:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Someone not using his real name (talk) 19:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. Someone not using his real name (talk) 19:32, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Northamerica1000^(talk) 11:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge with Social market economy. Social market economy and this article do probably constitute a content fork so far as the named subject goes, but they do so surprisingly little in terms of actual content. While, by encyclopedic standards, Social market economy is mostly by far the better article, it is badly lopsided: it describes at length the motivating theory and the politics leading to its implementation in West Germany, but then touches only briefly on describing what was implemented in practice (and got described as "the West German model" and later just as "the German model") and not at all the rather fierce academic and political arguments over the past twenty years or so on whether (and to what extent) it failed from 1990 onwards and whether (and to what extent) it still applies to the current German economy. In explanatory terms, this first half of this article covers the basics of what was implemented reasonably well, though admittedly by the standards of Wikipedia articles when it was written in 2005 rather than current standards. I have now reintroduced a couple of the sources linked to, and apparently used, in the early history of the article (they were apparently removed because they had been sourced to the authors' own websites rather than to the academic volumes they had been published in), this time using them for inline citations. More can certainly be done, but probably by others - I don't have much expertise on the subject. The second half of the article at least partly indicates, and references, the more recent arguments. Finally, while merging the two articles is in principle probably the best solution, doing so will produce quite a large article - if the resulting article looks like being too large, it might still be better to keep this article as a separate spin-off one. PWilkinson (talk) 18:55, 16 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 12:06, 20 February 2014 (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.