Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison between Roman and Han Empires (2nd nomination)
This article is surfing the boundary between  and  - either it is an indiscriminate comparison of two otherwise unrelated historical entities or it is an effort at creating a relationship between these entities (either historical or academic) that currently does not exist.  To explain: It is true that the Han dynasty has roughly the same relationship to Chinese culture that the Roman empire has to European culture.  however, the Byzantine empire had the same relationship with middle eastern Islamic cultures, the Egyptian and Babylonian empires had similar effects on the ancient world, the Mayan and Aztec empires influenced New World cultures in much the same way, and the modern world suffers from the same influences by European colonialism and American economic expansionism - why are all these excluded from the article?  to answer the (mostly rhetorical) question, they are excluded because including them would make the article '''truly''' and '''obviously''' an indiscriminate list of comparisons.  so why make the comparison between just these two?  because an editor (Teeninvestor) seems to want to make a point about the relative importance of the Han dynasty in cultural history.  While I find myself agreeing that it is an interesting and important point to make, wikipedia (as a tertiary source) is clearly not the correct place to be making it.  I suggest that relevant portions of this article be integrated into the Han Dynasty and Roman Empire articles, and that this article be removed
— [[User_talk:Ludwigs2|Ludwigs2]], 21:04, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:INDISCRIMINATE||WP:SYN (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)