Deletion of Philippines and the Spratly Islands

Comment: spaced ndash}} Outright deletion is too hasty. This article has 57 cited sources (as of this post), many of which are reliable. Rather than deleting the entire work, perhaps editors can consider improving it, per . Of course, performing research and copy editing requires much more time and energy compared to simply deleting the entry in entirety
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Editing policy (WP:PRESERVE)

Comment: Although the content could be merged into the articles such as Spratly Islands or Spratly Islands dispute, the amount of referenced content is so large that it would be subject to , and require that the content be split per . If there is this much referenced content, the subject clearly meets 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:TOOLONG||WP:SIZERULE||WP:GNG)