Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of dictatorships
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
— User:Sjakkalle, 15:36, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOV (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)