Deletion of Romance peoples

Comment: or '''redirect''' to Romance languages per  and . If Romance peoples are just defined as peoples speaking Romance languages, and this is the only thing we can say about them, then the primary topic is Romance languages. "Romance peoples = peoples speaking Romance languages" is just a dictionary entry, but not a topic. Some sources (such as Magocsi 2018){{cite book |last1=Magocsi |first1=Paul Robert |author-link1=Paul Robert Magocsi |year=2018 |chapter= |editor-last= |editor-first= |editor-link= |title=Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-d_DwAAQBAJ |series= |language= |volume= |issue= |edition= |location= |publisher=University of Toronto Press |page= |pages= |isbn=1487523319 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |via=  |quote= }} only use the term as a kind of "folder label" without any deeper implications, and many (especially contemporary) sources which deal with the nations and ethnicites of Europe do not employ the concept of "Romance peoples" at all, e.g. Cole (2011){{cite book |last1=Cole |first1=Jeffrey |author-link1=Jeffrey Cole |year=2011 |chapter= |editor-last= |editor-first= |editor-link= |title=Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wlth0GRi0N0C |series= |language= |volume= |issue= |edition= |location= |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page= |pages= |isbn=1598843028 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |via=  |quote= }} (where only one author out of 88 makes a single mention of "Latin peoples" i.e. "Romance peoples" in sense on the current article) and Waldman & Mason (2006),{{cite book |last1=Waldman |first1=Carl |author-link1= |last2=Mason |first2=Catherine |author-link2= |year=2006 |chapter= |editor-last= |editor-first= |editor-link= |title=Encyclopedia of European Peoples |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfv6HKXErqAC |series= |language= |volume= |issue= |edition= |location= |publisher=Infobase Publishing |page= |pages= |isbn=1438129181 |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date= |via=  |quote= }} and also good ol' Auntie ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' does not bother about a topic called "Romance peoples". Per  we should not elevate a non-topic to a topic, just because some sources do so. The meaningful topic "Romance peoples" that would not only rest on shared linguistic history, but also on shared culture etc. is covered in Romans. With the transition of the Romans into the individual Romance-speaking ethnicities and nations (and also being absorbed into non-Romance speaking groups), the history of "Romance peoples" ends. And btw, readers are not really ''that'' interested in the topic https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2019-11-01&end=2020-02-01&pages=Romance_peoples, except for the "storm in the WP-teacup" views starting in mid December
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTABLE||WP:NPOV||WP:NPOV)

Comment: Of course the Romance languages grouping is legitimate, but nothing about that implies that the people who speak such languages are ethnically related. This is clear  and should be deleted
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: as  and . There has been no legitimate research that this really exists
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYNTH||WP:FRINGE)

Comment: I think this article has been created to help launder the ideas of Ioan-Aurelian Pop and give them greater respectability. I think there is an article to be written about the concept of “Romance peoples” with a discussion of criticisms of the concept but I can’t see the current article as a sensible starting point for that. Its purpose is to give credibility to a fringe theory and the best approach is 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)

Comment: WP:POVFORK of what? Romance peoples are a notable and distinct topic. It passes . As mentioned in the article, the distinguished scholars Paul Robert Magocsi and Ioan-Aurel Pop refer to Romance peoples as being, along with Germanic peoples and Slavs, one of the three major ethnolinguistic groups in Europe. The topic is one which Wikipedia's readers https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range=latest-20&pages=Romance_peoples clearly want to know more about. If this article should exclude Savoyards or include Latin Americans, then that issue is best solved through editing, rather than deleting an entire article. Deleting this article is not an improvement to Wikipedia
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)