Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Limited government

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Jenks24 (talk) 11:24, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Mostly written like an essay and unsourced, much of this is already covered in the small government article, I don't see a need to merge because I perceive POV issues here. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 03:57, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Conservatism-related deletion discussions. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 03:57, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 03:57, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment – Agree that this article needs serious improvement. It has previously been proposed for merger with Small government or Minarchism, which have their own problems. The actual process of adding improvements is likely to be somewhat difficult because of partisan views on the issue. I'd much rather see the article improved than deleted, but agree that it cannot stand as-is. jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 11:18, 26 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Limited and small government are very different concepts. The article needs to be re-written and sourced properly, but deleting it, or merging it with an article addressing a related but distinct concept, seems to me to be a fairly extreme way of addressing the article's poor quality. Hayek79 (talk) 17:00, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

After Hayek79's removal of unsourced OR, this article is a mere stub of a stub, but still worth keeping and improving. jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 18:07, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep with thanks to Hayek79 for cutting it down ot a stub. "limited government" and "small government" are not the same. "Limited government" is a term of art in political theory. Now let us pray that some good editor, or perhaps a candidate for a degree in political theory procrastinating when he should be finishing his thesis, will expand and improve this article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:21, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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