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. --Coredesat 03:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

United Kingdom as a major power (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

In March, emerging superpower (then potential superpower) was nominated for deletion, along with a whole bunch of other articles on potential superpowers. No consensus was reached, although there was a small contingent of users who supported keeping the articles on China and the European Union and deleting the rest. In a second AfD in July, the articles on Russia, Brazil, and Japan were deleted as largely original research, leaving China, India, and the European Union, which consensus seems to be should be kept for now.

I hereby nominate United Kingdom as a major power based on its similarity to those articles deleted in July. It suffers from much the same OR problems, and is in the same boat as Russia, Brazil, and Japan as not a large-consensus emerging superpower. theProject 04:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete This is an essay that draws it own conclusions, not an encyclopaedia article. Unverified and POV. -- IslaySolomon | talk 04:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above; unsourced original research. --Muchness 04:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above. MER-C 05:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete — Unsourced, and it seems to be someone's own opinion on how powerful Great Britain is today. No sources as well. –- kungming·2 ^(Talk) 05:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete OR- essay; unverified. SkierRMH,08:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Unsourced and OR. TSO1D 12:55, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete One-sided soapbox article that covers subjects better dealt with elsewhere.--Nydas^(Talk) 15:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. FirefoxMan 16:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete -- 1) the "United Kingdom" is anything but; 2) it ceased to be a great power many decades ago, and has now become the fifty-n-th State of the USA; 3) it ceased to have any right to be called a major power long before it ascribed to the title because of its adherence to policies of racial and religious intolerance, and its exploitation of undeveloped countries and their peoples. -- Simon Cursitor 07:45, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Wikipedia is not a soapbox, I'd suggest citing Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, rather than your personal politics, in this discussion. -- IslaySolomon | talk 03:02, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete OR POV essay, better suited to a personal blog.-- danntm ^T _C 17:38, 14 December 2006 (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.