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The result was Keep The current article may be a but ORish but there is clearly an article to build here and deleting it only means that we have to start from scratch. Spartaz Humbug! 18:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC) reply
As I wrote on the talk page:
As far as I can tell, this article was created and maintained by only one editor,
User:Mikael Häggström, and has no citations or external links beyond those confirming facts. The important thing that is missing is a confirmation of what the definition of World Development is, and that this is an accepted use of the term. "World Development" could be used to describe many things, and I can't find any similar use on Google (though admittedly I didn't look very hard), so as far as I can tell this is a topic that User:Mikael Häggström simply made up. That's not to say I don't think it's a good article -- it's well written and well cited, especially beyond the introduction, which I think is the most problematic area of the article, and I'd hate to see it be lost because of that. I'm just not sure this is an appropriate topic for Wikipedia. If multiple links were added to things that deal with this topic in a similar manner and confirm that the term "World Development" is used in this way by someone other than User:Mikael Häggström, this article would be much the better for it, but I can't find anything, and unless that happens, I really don't think this is appropriate for Wikipedia. -- BlastOButter42
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Speak 19:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
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I've changed my mind and am withdrawing this nomination (see below), but it's already got several delete votes on it, so I'm not sure what should be done about it. -- BlastOButter42 See Hear Speak 23:56, 8 June 2008 (UTC) reply
*Weak delete high quality article with plenty of
WP:RS but the term itself seems to have been
WP:MADEUP by the primary author. ~ Ameliorate
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