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- 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 delete. There is a lot of irrelevant material and repeated argument in this AFD, making it appear to have much more substance than it actually has. No one party is solely responsible for this, but I would ask everyone who made numerous very long posts here to consider the wisdom of doing so in future debates. Now to the meat of the issue: As we all know this is not a vote, but even if it were there is no clear numerical winner, although a slim majority favor deletion. That leaves us with strength of argument. On the "keep" side we have the argument that there are sources that use this term, but as the "delete" proponents point out, the way it is used is inconsistent, and most Argentines apparently do not self-identify as "white" even if they might "feel white" (whatever that is supposed to mean) and this term is not used by other Argentines to refer these persons. There may be some academics who use the term in their studies of race and ethnicity but on the whole it does not seem to be a term with much use in the day-to-day "real" world. It seems there is a real and valid concern that this article consists of a synthesis of information that is not clearly supported by the sources. As the individual subgroups of more well-defined ethnicities already have their own articles there is no sensible target for merging this information or simply redirecting the article. Therefore both consensus and policy would seem to favor deletion. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:22, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]