articles For Deletion/Female Parliamentarians

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I'm sure an article about women in legislatures could be written, but consensus is clear, this isn't it. Courcelles 18:43, 15 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Female parliamentarians

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This has been a one-line, tautological, unsourced micro-stub for over five years. There was once a sort-of article there that was subject to AfD and narrowly survived with no consensus to delete. Since then, the contested material in it was deleted, and for years it has sat there as a one-line definition of sorts, but it isn't really even a definition, just circular reasoning. It is directly comparable to an article consisting of "A green plant is a plant that is green, and by extension can refer to stuff like fungi that aren't really plants." It is not a candidate for transwiki to Wiktionary (I removed the {{dicdef}}), since it isn't a phrase used as a word, like "mountain goat" (wikt:mountain goat) or "moon landing" (wikt:moon landing) that could form a valid Wiktionary entry, it's just an adjective and noun like "large ship" (wikt:large ship) and "Asian sculptor" (wikt:Asian sculptor). Note which of these are blue vs. red, and which lead to actual wikt articles. And it doesn't have Wiktionary-usable content anyway. Finally, we avoid creating articles and categories that are gender-divided unless there's a compelling reason to do so. Parliamentary positions haven't been a near-exclusively-male line of work for several generations now. We don't have Female doctor, Male nurse or other such articles either, for the same reason. Maybe or maybe not this idea could work as a list article, but this is not a list, so that consideration isn't relevant here. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 18:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete While not being an appropriate term for a dictionary, I would still consider it essentially a dictdef in that the only content is a definition. Certainly there's nothing of value here. Perhaps redirect to Women in politics. Theoldsparkle (talk) 18:53, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Self evident tautology with valueless pseudoextention. FeatherPluma (talk) 21:26, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Omg - women participate in politics. "Come here, ma!" Joe Chill (talk) 03:55, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 20:18, 10 August 2011 (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.