Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Totalitarian architecture
delete).   See the extended talk page conversation.  This is a classic case of |original research by synthesis.  Yes, ''the phrase "totalitarian architecture"'' can be found on Google Scholar, but there are many English phrases with hits in Google Books or Google Scholar that are not remotely Wikipedia article worthy.  The question is the notability of the claimed ''topic'' of totalitarian-architecture-in-general, which rules out 95% of the hits.  I don't plan on disrupting Wikipedia to make a point, but imagine for a moment articles like democratic architecture (on all architecture in all democracies across the world) or female architecture (on architecture principles allegedly in common from all women architects) or conservative architecture (architecture made by conservatives?) or Jewish architecture (connecting architecture of Israel, architecture of synagogues, and works of secular civil architects who are Jewish).  You can find hits on Google Scholar for all of these, these phrases are casually used, and you could make synthesis abominations by quoting the Google Book snippets at random to develop some "theory of conservative architecture" as your bit of original research.  Fair disclaimer, the Igor Golomstock book is ''actually'' a good source here: he wrote a book that was actually studying and comparing architecture across totalitarian regimes and finding things in common (as well as things NOT in common), and that is the topic of the entire book (not a phrase taken from a random context where it was likely just synonymous with "fascist architecture").  The problem is we need more - a single 1990 book that would fail  is not really enough, we don't create WP articles for every random book or journal article's thesis.  Most of the other sources mentioned in this discussion are incredibly shallow - the Oxford page is two sentences long!  And most of the other Google hits are, again, just passing uses of the phrase, not the claimed Wikipedia topic of "connecting principle across all architects we Don't Like
— User:SnowFire, 18:18, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:SYNTH||WP:NBOOK (Wikipedia:No original research)