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 speedy delete. MBisanz ^talk 04:08, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Incarceration Rate, Military Spending, and Surveillance among the World Superpowers[edit]

Incarceration Rate, Military Spending, and Surveillance among the World Superpowers (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

A duplicate of Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China (currently on AfD Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China, created by a probably sockpuppet of blocked user Kikbguy (case here). Consists of almost the exact same text and information as the other AfD'ed article, only with a single sentence and ref about military spending added; this extra information doesn't increase the notability or verifiability of the claims in this article, but only increases the amount of unpublished synthesis; like the original article, this is an arbitrary cross-categorization and collection of statistics with no assertion of a relationship between them. Article was declined for speedy until other AfD is closed, and prod was removed. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 17:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as original research. AfD could possibly be simply combined with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China? --ZimZalaBim ^talk 18:43, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • (That AfD is already getting swamped and hard to follow, so I figured it would help to keep things separate. Hut 8.5 has suggested to me (here) that we just speedy this article as soon as the other AfD is successfully closed, but in the meantime I figured I should open this AfD as well). —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 18:50, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as attempt to circumvent the AfD process. Also, reasons for deleting other article all apply here. Ray (talk) 19:00, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• • Keep and Note to Moderator Politizer and Zimzalabim have been trying to delete all of my articles because I refuse to accept their views that this article should be deleted. Zimzalabim has already abused his administrative priviliedges and had me banned under false pretenses. Politizer has a history of trying to kill wikipedia entries that he has not written. Both of them have been trying to discredit me, delete my articles, censor my comments, and block me from using wikipedia. They certainly have a conflict of interest with my articles at this point because any article I write they have and will continue to try and delete. Don't delete this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.174.9.7 (talk • contribs)
    • NOTE: The above editor is the article creator and an admitted sock puppet of Kikbguy, reported here. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 19:33, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• • Update Politizer and Zimbalabim are now deleting all the "See Also" sections of my work. Don't take my word for it, check their edit logs to verify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.184.6.10 (talk • contribs)
    • Comment I am deleting the sections; ZimZalaBim is uninvolved. And I am not deleting sections from "your" work, I am deleting your edits to other peoples' work. You are repeatedly going to other articles and adding links this article, which is poorly written and is up for deletion. Continued addition of these links will be seen as vandalism. And again, please keep the discussion here centered on the matter at hand; if you have a problem with my actions at other articles, you can discuss it somewhere else, not here. —Politizer ^talk/_contribs 21:56, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• keep only one version, no duplicates and comment: Alternative data sources will be welcome. The sipri.org data has apparent math issues: the purchasing power of money in Russia is well below UK or France (i.e. all basic commodities cost more), yet for some reasons its PPP ranking is above these countries. NVO (talk) 22:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy delete - This was created by a sockpuppet as a duplicate of another article. There's not possible argument for keeping it. --Steven J. Anderson (talk) 08:21, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• I am not a sock puppet. I'm the editor of the stub and (Politizer, Zimzalabim, and VirtualSteve) have had me blocked for "sockpuppetry" which is code for using a proxy to argue a time sensitive deletion of my article stub when they wrongfully block my original account for arguing with them. These three editors/administrators have grossly abused their power using vandalism, false accusations, deleting my posts, and downright propaganda to have me blocked, this article stub deleted, and to delete all "see also" links going to the article stub so that this information does not get out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.124.103 (talk • contribs) — 128.230.124.103 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Too narrow and poorly defined topic for an encyclopedia. As with Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China, delete. Kikbguy, if you ever want to turn this article into anything encyclopedic, please don't repeatedly re-create it under various titles; instead, copy it into your user space and work on it there. And if you disagree with the block that has been imposed upon you, don't avoid it using sockpuppet accounts or IP addresses (this may result in your block being extended, up to an including an indefinite length); rather, challenge it on your talk page using the ((unblock|reason for unblocking)) template, or just wait until it expires. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 19:02, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as a rework of Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China, for all the reasons listed in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surveillance and Incarceration in the U.S., Russia, and China. Jll (talk) 22:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. —Nick-D (talk) 07:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Clearly original research based around a questionable correlation. Nick-D (talk) 07:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete and salvage information into relevant articles, synthesis and original research Alex Bakharev (talk) 08:00, 9 December 2008 (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.