Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Federated state (disambiguation)

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 16:51, 30 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Federated state (disambiguation)

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This doesn't look like proper disambiguation. It's not like someone's going to type in "Federated state" expecting to get a list of the states of Brazil. If anything it's a list of lists, though the article Federated state appears to list them all anyway. I suggest outright deletion. Rennell435 (talk) 13:25, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom; this is a list, not a disambig page, and we already have a much better article on the concept of a federated state that encompasses everything (except Palau, but that is not really a federation) on this list. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Don't know why Palau is in there... Rennell435 (talk) 14:02, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Becuase it's divided into "states". Apparently a translation as "states" and any level of state powers not merely delegated are enough, or it would not have Germany either. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - The title is "federated state". Just having the word "state" in the title doesn't make it relevant. Night w2 (talk) 04:25, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and move to List of federated states, since the title is the objection. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 14:43, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Federated state is all but a list, and a much better one. Johnbod (talk) 03:53, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 15:24, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Obviously not a disambiguation page, and a better, more detailed list is already incorporated into the federated state article. Powers ^T 17:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This disambiguation page was created as rather an unsatisfactory compromise between those editors who thought these examples of federated states shouldn't be listed at State and those who did. (The discussion was here.) In reality providing a link to a list article would be considerably most satisfactory. In reality the same logic who goes for not listing examples of federated states at State goes for not listing them at Federated state (disambiguation). — Blue-Haired Lawyer ^t 18:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above; the main article is fuller & better. Johnbod (talk) 03:53, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unnecessary, and an inappropriate use of the term "disambiguation". As BHL alluded to, this was the creation of one editor who had an objection to removing these links from the State page. Night w2 (talk) 04:25, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Nothing is really being disambiguated here. bd2412 T 23:43, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
Delete as above. Neutrality^talk 06:24, 30 May 2011 (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.