Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Megacorpstate
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The result was merge to J. Barkley Rosser Jr.. Liz Read! Talk! 23:01, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
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At first glance this seems to be a well-organized article with lots of citations. However on closer examination the only source that actually uses the term "Megacorpstate" is the first one, a single academic article by the author who coined the term. Most of the sources instead relate to Seven Sisters (oil companies) or OPEC and their inclusion here seems to be only connected to the article subject through inappropriate OR and/or synthesis. Google results for "Megacorpstate" don't return anything besides this Wiki article and that journal article, and that journal article doesn't appear to have been cited or discussed by anyone. On the whole there is not a lot of evidence that this concept actually exists except as a term of convenience used by one author in one publication. I suggest deleting or merging into J. Barkley Rosser Jr.. -- LWG talk 22:17, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. -- LWG talk 22:17, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to J. Barkley Rosser Jr. (with a great deal of trimming). The vast majority of this article is WP:SYNTH citing vaguely-related topics and trying to patch them all together into a coherent whole. Not something we should be doing. WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 22:52, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
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