Deletion of Politics in the British Isles

Comment: As a |POV fork |redundant content fork. There are only two sovereign states in the archipelago. The politics of the archipelago is thus more than sufficiently met by Ireland-United Kingdom relations and the main British Isles article. The mere existence of a particular string of words in a published source (in this case "politics of the British Isles", or just, as easily, "British-Irish politics", or "Anglo-Irish politics", etc.) does not, in itself, merit a separate article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:POVFORK||WP:CONTENTFORK)

Comment: I've http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ireland–United_Kingdom_relations&action=historysubmit&diff=494484549&oldid=494473631 added effectively all of this article to Ireland-United Kingdom relations. All of it is good stuff IMO and is a great addition to that article. However, doing so only underlines that this is a |POV fork of that article
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Content forking (WP:POVFORK)

Comment: spaced ndash}} struck out my merge !vote above, per User:Karl.brown's comment directly above. This topic ''has'' received coverage using the term (http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:TWj2p5gNKV4J:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,33, http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2776461?uid=3739832&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=56241449193, http://www2.hud.ac.uk/asb/identity_and_other_british_isles.php, http://books.google.com/books?id=B9W0QgAACAAJ&dq=editions:2B8dVJIgK28C&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fuPQT9LLC-j50gGf3NDEDQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA), and as such the information should be |D in some manner, rather than blanket deleted. Another option would be to selectively merge to Politics of the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Crown dependencies, respectively. Keep for now, then possibly merge, if that's what consensus becomes regarding this article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Editing policy (WP:PRESERVE)

Comment: The following editors have been |canvassed for their participation: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Matt_Lewis&diff=prev&oldid=494422526, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Midnightblueowl&diff=prev&oldid=494422503, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Klemen_Kocjancic&diff=prev&oldid=494422483, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Abtract&diff=prev&oldid=494422475, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Thejmii&diff=prev&oldid=494422460, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Dallyripple&diff=prev&oldid=494422443, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sabrebd&diff=prev&oldid=494422426, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pinethicket&diff=prev&oldid=494422389, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:GraemeLeggett&diff=prev&oldid=494422376
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Canvassing (WP:CANVASS)

Comment: this article is an unnecessary POV content fork with liberal doses of |synthesis. Despite the title most of the content attempts to describe relations between the UK, Crown dependencies, and the Republic of Ireland, which makes it a content fork of Ireland-United Kingdom relations. Yes there are parts of the British Isles which are not part of the UK or Ireland, but this is nothing more than a technicality in this context as their external relations are handled by the UK. While there are sources which cover things like UK-Ireland history from a "British Isles" perspective, this usage is POV and by no means universal, and as a result the article is forced to use quite a lot of synthesis in order to get the sources to fit the article purpose. Obviously we can cover this POV within Wikipedia, but we have to do so on an article about the POV itself rather than structuring all our content around it
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:SYN)

Comment: Politics in the British Isles is the subject of endless streams of ink. Given the shared history (see History of the British Isles and recent creation of British-Irish Council|multi-lateral bodies whose scope is the whole of the British isles, a survey article like this one is completely reasonable, not OR, and obviously notable. If your general argument is with the intersection of politics and regions, well, we also have Water politics in the Middle East, Water politics in the Nile Basin, Politics of the Caribbean, Politics of the European Union, Politics of Europe, for starters; but I suppose you might respond that ? If you can point out the OR, you are of course welcome to improve the article. I'm just not sure why you are saying this article is OR, or which parts are OR? Also, this is not , because no additional conclusions are being drawn about ''politics in the british isles'' that isn't supported by references. Nice to see you too BJ
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS||WP:SYN)