Deletion of List of dictatorships

Comment: largely per Carrite and Lankiveil. The cited groups are not fringe groups, but their opinions do not necessarily reflect the broad scholarly consensus either. Some of the entries may be controversial (e.g. labelling Russia as a "dictatorship" which has elections and opposition represented in the Duma, even though there are severe limitations in the freedom of media and speech as well as an awfully powerful president). It is far from clear that all countries can be classified as either being a "democracy" or a "dictatorship", and by presenting the issue as if it were like that, we are giving implicit endorsement of that view, in violation of . List of freedom indices broadly overlaps this subject and is a better way of doing this
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)

Comment: It's a pretty map, but GIGO. First off, the word "dictatorship" is tendentious and undefinable. Are we talking about a unitary leader? A clique or junta? A single-party state? A bourgeois state with a rigged political system offering a choice between a Douche and Turd|Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich every four years, thereby empowering a single ruler to spy and launch wars and govern by executive orders? Not so easy, eh? And: the concept "dictatorship" — which is really out of vogue among serious academic historians and political scientists alike and has been for several decades — overlooks the very real decision-making processes and lower level authorities in even political systems topped by a unitary leader, such as, for example, the Soviet Union in the 1930s or North Korea today. There are a multiplicity of political actors exerting very real power in even the most tightly cloistered one party state. Essentially, this is a POV essay pushing the notion of a dichotomous world in which "we're good" and "they're bad." As such, it is a violation of the policies of  and 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV||WP:NOR)

Comment: or merge to DD index or List of regimes &mdash; The  policy violation becomes more apparent when you look at List of regimes (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_regimes&oldid=603530576 latest as of this post), which is the non-selective version. This article is a culled, otherwise  version of that.  The  policy violation stems from the Polity data series in no way using the term "dictatorship;" it simply ranks on a sectioned, continuous scale from autocracy to anocracy to democracy.  The only thing that makes the assertion of "dictatorship" is DD index. So, by combining "autocracy" with "dictatorship" to round to "dictatorship," the list is asserting and advancing a conclusion for the reader and using the assertion of "autocracy" as a way of backing up the assertion of "dictatorship."  To take it even further, because that assertion of "dictatorship" rests solely on DD index, we then have on our hands something between a  and , especially when taken in concert with List of freedom indices
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV||WP:A10||WP:OR||WP:POVFORK||WP:UNDUE)