Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Criticism of Vladimir Putin (2nd nomination)
The entire article is available '''word for word''' in Vladimir Putin. The information in this article was intentionally created by an editor by cherry-picking information to create a POV-fork. Many people forget that we are here to help build an encyclopaedia, not to advocate and to criticise (in the negative sense of the word) figures that they dearly hate; nor are we here to write glowing articles. Let's go thru this article. Criticism_of_Vladimir_Putin#Civil_liberties_and_internal_dissent is available word for word at Vladimir_Putin#Criticism. Criticism_of_Vladimir_Putin#Allegations_of_political_assassinations_and_muzzling_of_reporters is available word for word at Vladimir_Putin#Second_term_.282004.C2.A0.E2.80.93_2008.29 (next to the photo of Putin Tu-160 cockpit). Criticism_of_Vladimir_Putin#Relations_with_.22oligarchs.22 is available word for wod at Vladimir_Putin#Second_term_.282004.C2.A0.E2.80.93_2008.29 (just above the photo of Putin Tu-160 cockpit). Criticism_of_Vladimir_Putin#Environmental_concerns belongs at Vladimir_Putin#Environmental_record. Criticism_of_Vladimir_Putin#Foreign_policy is available word for word at Vladimir_Putin#Foreign_policy (just below photo of Putin with Schroeder). It is plainly obvious that this was created as a  in order to have an end-run around the  policy. Now if one looks at this piece by piece. Criticism_of_Vladimir_Putin#Foreign_policy belongs (and is already present at) Foreign policy of Vladimir Putin. The rest belongs in an article called Domestic policy of Vladimir Putin (which is what the other attack "grotesque"  article at Putinism basically is - and I say grotesque because the editor who is currently blocked who added most of the SYN himself said that was his plan). The trick is to have balance. Whilst Putin (and Russia in general) are hated in the Western media -- it's nothing new -- Russophobia goes back centuries to England and Denmark -- people tend to forget that Putin had genuine 80% approval ratings in Russia -- the highest of any national leader, and even now as PM has approval ratings in the mid-60s. Given the existence of this article, why shouldn't we break out all the positive things, and create Support of Vladimir Putin, because the current article is not a criticism article in the scholarly sense of the word. Given that all information is already present in other relevant articles, and the creation of relevant of NPOV articles should be a priority, this POVFORK should be deleted
— User:Russavia, 07:04, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:POVFORK||WP:NPOV||WP:SYN (Wikipedia:Content forking)