Deletion of Mass killings under Communist regimes (2nd nomination)

Comment: AmateurEditor puts it best, this a clearly notable topic discussed in a a large number of reliable sources.  Nominator's deletion rationale is clearly flawed.  An article being problematic is not a reason for deletion.  And article still needing "fixing" is not a reason for deletion - Wikipedia is not on a deadline. This is no more a |fork of "killings in the 20th century" than Armenian Genocide. The article does not violate  or ,  as the sources show.  is a reason for improvement, not deletion and covering subjects like this is no more a violation of NPOV than Trail of Tears or Witch trials in Early Modern Europe or Mai Lai Massacre
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks (WP:FORK||WP:UNDUE||WP:FRINGE||WP:NPOV)

Comment: Millions of documented killings clearly passes , it easily passes  and .  The only area I could see any possible argument is , but then the same argument would apply to a AfD debate for The Holocaust
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:UNDUE||WP:FRINGE||WP:COATRACK||WP:NPOV)

Comment: useful article, obviously passing 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:UNDUE)

Comment: there are enough  sources out there written on the subject: most notable probably Helen Fein's chapter on http://books.google.com/books?id=n4TaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Soviet+and+Communist+Genocides%22&dq Soviet and Communist Genocides and Democide in Genocide: a sociological perspective {{ISBN|9780803988293}}, http://books.google.com/books?id=LQfeXVU_EvgC&pg=PA91&dq Communist mass killings by Benjamin A. Valentino, R. J. Rummel who has been using a term http://books.google.com/books?q=%22communist+democide%22&btnG=Search+Books communist democide; not to mention "Communist genocide" alone gives http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Communist+genocide%22&btnG=Search+Books 441 returns on google books and http://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=20&q=%22Communist+genocide%22 75 on google scholar. Should be more than enough resources out there to write a good article about the subject that was titled "Mass killings under Communist regimes" as a compromise to achieve a consensus. See Talk:Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes/Archive_3#Requested_move_II|Requested_move_II
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS)

Comment: The topic of the large-scale killings that have occurred under several Communist regimes in the twentieth century, why they occurred, what their commonalities are, and what their differences are is a notable subject discussed in several reliable, secondary, academic sources, four of which I quote and cite below for the benefit of skeptical editors. Because there are multiple labels for the events collectively in the sources, and because the original title was not considered neutral, the current title is descriptive (using a phrase, "mass killings", from one of the main sources) and a section is provided to explain all other terminology that is used. Despite existing for less than one year (not five as the nominator wrote above), the article is extensively sourced. Discussion is currently under way to improve it further. The article does not violate  because it is about exactly what it claims to be about: mass killings under Communist regimes. The article does not violate  because it is weighted similarly to the sources in focusing on the big three: the USSR, China, and Cambodia. Every attempt has been made to maintain , including changing the title. The article does not violate  because there was never a main article from which this one branched and because the article is written neutrally and does not push one explanation over another. (Some editors have thought about creating such a parent article into which this can be merged, but I don't think that would be a good idea because the article as it exists describes a distinct and notable topic which deserves and can support its own page. It's also fairly long. Merging it into an article such as Mass killings in the twentieth century would either make that article much too long or involve losing much of this one. The parent article could certainly be created, but it wouldn't mean that this one should be deleted.) The article does not violate  because of the academic nature of the sources upon which it is based. The following are excerpts from four such sources with which I am familiar, quoted at length here to put to rest the notion that the topic is an invention or a synthesis of "bits and pieces of different things
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Coatrack articles (WP:COATRACK||WP:UNDUE||WP:NPOV||WP:POVFORK||WP:FRINGE)

Comment: per Collect, Termer. Reliable and independent sources have substantial coverage of mass killings of noncombatants under Communist regimes, satisfying 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: Fifth AfD in nine months - someone most be really desperate to get rid of this article. Valid topic, plenty of academic sources, including monographies dedicated to the topic. The term "Communist genocide" has been used for more than fifty years, with numerous articles discussing it since the mid-1950s. Definitely not a fringe view and not a coatrack.  is still not a reason for deletion
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT)

Comment: but |split into articles specific to each regime. Redirect this title to Criticisms of Communist party rule#Loss of life and link to each split-off article there. Lumping these all together suggests there's something inherently genocidal about communism. Whether or not communism actually ''is'' inherently genocidal will depend on who you ask, and I don't think it's our place to make that call. Regarding the nominator's claim that this "can't be fixed", I'm personally willing to perform this split and redirect when a consensus is established to do so
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Splitting (WP:split)

Comment: per BigK Hex. That an article with a title that references "killings" lacks a unifying framework such that it makes no distinction between actual mass murder/genocide and famine that occurred as a result of communist policy is appalling. I say "per BigK Hex" because there is a ''ton'' of good information in this article that could be merged elsewhere. Frankly, almost everything in the article is valid. The topic, however, is a disaster of multiple interpretations and literally no unifying academic framework for analysis. , certainly, but  most significantly
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Coatrack articles (WP:COATRACK||WP:SYNTH)