Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Insularity

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 redirect to Insular. Mr.Z-man 03:20, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Insularity

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Unsourced for eight years; appears more like a dictionary definition; more appropriate for Wiktionary Drm310 (talk) 20:39, 1 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:04, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Dictionary entry. Fails WP:NAD and WP:OR. – Margin1522 (talk) 21:23, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 04:05, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Dusti ^{*Let's talk!*} 04:41, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails WP:NAD and there is already a definition on Wiktionary. cyberdog958^Talk 06:42, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Soft redirect (WP:SRD) to the wiktionary entry. ansh666 07:16, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Insular per Granger below works too. ansh666 19:12, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Insular, which is a disambiguation page. —Granger (talk · contribs) 14:20, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The topic has great notability and all one has to do to see this is click on the search links above. Here are some examples:

Islanded Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity
Human Responses to Insularity
Insularity and Development: International Perspectives on Islands
Insularity: Representations and Constructions of Small Worlds
Insularity and Its Effect on Mammal Evolution
Insularity and its effects
Insularity and Identity in the Caribbean
Tropical Insularity and Health
The Biology of Insularity: an introduction
Size, Insularity and Democracy

Our editing policy is to expand upon such weak starts, not to delete them, and we don't have a deadline for this work. Andrew D. (talk)

Comment – I agree that those are significant topics. But we already have articles on insularity in ecosystems. See Island ecology, Insular biogeography, and Patch dynamics. We could also have articles about evolution and survival in isolated social systems. But this article isn't about that. It's simply a definition that says insularity = geographic isolation. And another sense of the word, insularity = narrow mindedness, for which we have the article Parochialism. I would be willing to keep this article if it showed potential for developing into a topic, but as it stands I think it's just listing a couple meanings of the word. – Margin1522 (talk) 21:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep if it becomes sourced. See WP:BEFORE and WP:HEY. Bearian (talk) 18:04, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I agree that an article could be written for Insularity (psychology) and another different one for Insularity (sociology), and a third entirely different one for Insularity (evolution); however this article is not any of them, and based on the existing text cannot become one. Delete this. If you believe, as does editor Andrew D., that there should be such articles, write one. Kudos for editor Margin1522's analysis above. --Bejnar (talk) 20:46, 23 December 2014 (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.