Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Command and control regulation

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The result was delete. joe decker ^{talk to me} 00:02, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Command and control regulation

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WP:NOTESSAY, WP:OR, and WP:SYNTH. That is, this appears to be one person's essay defining a topic by synthesizing various sources, and is original research. Singularity42 (talk) 21:12, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. It seems that the term command and control regulation has been used in the US in the specific sense used in the article in relation to environmental protection, and so it can claim some notability, but it could have a whole variety of valid meanings. And the discussion of the theory of state regulation of behaviour in general belongs in an article on political theory, the regulation of environmentally harmful behaviour in an article on that topic. So even if the problems of synthesis and essay could be resolved it would still be a fork and an unsuitable article title. --AJHingston (talk) 23:29, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:27, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nominator; also note that the prose is so vague and uninformative that it's almost unreadable. You definitely get the impression that there's less to this than it appears: This form of regulation, which represents a ‘sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community’ can be applied in multiple areas but below it is discussed as a method of prohibiting or restricting environmentally harmful activities. Most commonly, command and control regulation involves legislation-making and the setting and application of environmental standards which are then monitored and enforced by the regulatory agency, who have the power to use sanctions in response to non-compliance. Environmental standards refer to uniform requirements on broad categories of activities to achieve specific environmental goals; these standards can relate to emissions, concentration of substances in an ambient medium, processes, product standards and so on. This ‘rules-and-deterrence’ model represents a top-down process which relies heavily on technical expertise of scientists, lawyers and administrative experts. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:03, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 23:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. There have been a number of ecology-related essays posted on Wikipedia in the past few days (see also Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood and Eco-localisation which I've prodded, and I know there are others). While it's good that these projects are made accessible, Wikipedia is not the place for them. SSRN or bepress would make better homes. ... discospinster _talk 18:23, 21 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.