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 redirect to Ethnic group. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 09:56, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The very poor fork from Ethnic group. See discussion on talk page. I propose restore the original redirect to Ethnic group. Andronof (talk) 09:29, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Ethnic group. The brief discussion on the talk page is 16 (!) years old, and didn't reach consensus. The article is indeed very poorly cited, while Ethnic group isn't bad, and Ethnicity now redirects there. Merge discussions do not have to come to AfD, either. However, since ethnic origin, ethnicity and ethnic group are closely related (if not precisely synonyms), it seems sensible to have one article to cover them. Any attempt to expand and source the article otherwise would only create a WP:FORK of the target article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:59, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:23, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete or merge to Ethnic group. My very best wishes (talk) 00:59, 10 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:FORK. It's an older and, to be blunt, racist term. I would not oppose a redirect combined with a hard move-protect. Bearian (talk)
• Merge any relevant sourced parts to Ethnic group. The Ethnic origin article is poorly sourced. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 05:30, 11 July 2020 (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.