Deletion of White British

Comment: I did not know of , since I don't usually do AFDs.  The policy says "''after engaging in cross-posting to promote some vote, be sure to remove those cross-posts after it is over. ''"  I will delete my canvassed posts
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVASS)

Comment: I sense a lot of  amongst some of the deletion calls. Ethnic groups are not always as clearly defined and uncontroversial as some of the above posters seem to be implying. Take for example the above statement: "Ethnic groups are the English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh" - well for a start that's left out the Cornish! "White British" is an official term used by the census and other bodies to describe a defined group. Yes there are defined sub-groups within it - the 2001 census in Scotland had "White Scottish" and "other White British" as options - but this is the overall grouping. That it is used by several key bodies in the field (and the census classifications are used by a lot of other organisations for their own data) is evidence that the term has currency. It is clearly of encyclopedic note. If the term is contentious then this should be covered on the article, not have the whole thing deleted to satisfy one POV
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:IDONTLIKEIT)

Comment: Per Dean Wormer. Merge useful info with United Kingdom Census 2001, and other such articles if need be. Article is pointless and a magnet for content disputes. Especially bad is that article writer has turned a government neologism into an "ethnic group" article complete with template, origin narrative and prominent historical members such as William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton to whom "British" would have meant a Welsh person, which is borderline violation of 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)

Comment: Appears to take simple census category and present an elaborate |novel narrative about how this is actually some completely distinct ethnic group that is now experiencing "racism
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)