Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politics in the British Isles

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.

By request of DRV, an extended closing statement is provided at /Extended close

The result was Keep, without prejudice to any further discussion on scope of content, renaming, or relationship to other articles. I declared below that I would not detail my reasoning, but I will make one single point. I have recognised in this assessment that, in the context of politics, the term British Isles can be interpreted with the POV of pro-British, or even anti-Irish. I have seen no evidence that the article was written with this POV, nor was it the intention of the author, although several contributors to this debate on both sides clearly did have a POV regarding this. It is hard to hold it against KarlB for using this term when there is no widely recognised neutral alternative (I had not even heard of Atlantic Archipelago until today): at least, none has been suggested during this discussion. I also apologise for being British - I had not realised that this could be an issue when I began this close and have made every effort not to allow my nationality to sway my judgement. SpinningSpark 18:00, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This debate is taking some time to close. It will be a lengthy process to read all the material on this page and referenced debates and give them due consideration. It may take up to 24 hours to close. SpinningSpark 01:05, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It is my normal practice on closing controversial debates to give details of my reasoning and assessment of the arguments. I have been keeping copious notes for that purpose. I have just made the decision not to give any such assessment in this case: to do so would invite wall-of-text disputation on my talk page, and, judging by the previous close, accusations of super-voting. The close is merely going to give the result after my assessment is complete. SpinningSpark 10:16, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]