Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World domination
to Hegemony, an encyclopedic topic (at least potentially -- it also has problems), and merge whatever might be useful there; if not, follow PBS's suggestion and move the disambiguation page to it. There really is a Ming the Merciless/James-Bond-villain taste to the title (an unencyclopedic tone), but the problem goes beyond that. A more accurate title would be something like List of major historic hegemonic powers and states that almost became major historic hegemonic powers. That's what this article is about, and its an OR mashup that includes flash-in-the-pan wannabes like Hitler and Napoleon along with big old civilizations. The idea that ancient civilizations thought they dominated the world is hyperbole, not history. For instance, at the height of the Roman Empire's expansion they knew their silk and spices were coming from places they could never hope to control. They also knew Alexander the Great had conquered as far as the Indus before his own army told him they didn't want to go further, and the Roman army couldn't even hold Mesopotamia. Probably no ancient empire was so ignorant as to think they dominated the whole "world", no matter what Toynbee said. It might be possible to source something like List of hegemonic states. (But since the "world domination" bit doesn't work for this, how do you keep the list from expanding to include every dominant local tribe?) Another list might be created, something along the lines of List of states aspiring to world domination -- if some kind of limit could be set on the first group, you could find enough sourcing to keep both lists from falling into . It's certainly worth studying and somehow listing hegemonic powers. But this page isn't an encyclopedic way to do it
— User:Noroton, 15:37, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)