Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Democratic structuring

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 soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 14:11, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Democratic structuring

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This article has been tagged since 2010 as relying excessively on primary sources. Looking over it now, the only source cited in the article is Jo Freeman's essay "The Tyranny of Structurelessness", which it quotes so heavily from that this article is effectively a copyright violation (see Earwig results).

Looking for the term "democratic structuring" as defined by Freeman on Google Scholar, none of the sources appear to give the concept any analysis that is independent of wider commentary on the essay.[1] It appears there could be basis for an article on democratic structuring outside of its definition by Freeman, but this would be an entirely different article.[2]

Due to the extreme problems with this article, I'm nominating it for deletion. "Democratic structuring" could be redirected to the article on The Tyranny of Structurelessness, but in my opinion, this should only be done after this version is deleted due to copyvio. Grnrchst (talk) 12:30, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Politics, and Social science. Grnrchst (talk) 12:30, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Usually in cases like these I would vote to redirect or merge the article, maybe to the author of the concept (Jo Freeman), but there is nothing of substance that is not problematic (copyvio) to merge, and the target has nothing in-depth about the topic. Yue🌙 18:12, 27 March 2025 (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.