Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwestern European people

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This article appears to be massive WP:SYNTH. WP:REFBOMBED with any use of the phase "Northwestern European people" in the literature, regardless of context. I can find zero evidence that "Northwestern European people" is an independently noteworthy topic, as there appear to be no sources that specifically discuss "Northwestern European people" as a pan-ethnic group. See also Northwestern European Americans and Northwestern European Australians, and Wikipedia:Fringe_theories/Noticeboard/Archive_73#Northwestern_European_people for previous discussion of the issue. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:33, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

: To gives examples, in the first sentence of the non-lead section of the article, it states that {{tq|Northwestern European people have been identified as a distinct pan-ethnic grouping. They have been researched in academia in historical, cultural, linguistic and anthropological studies.{{cite book|title=The Discourse of Business Negotiation (Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)|chapter=Negotiation discourse and interaction in a cross-cultural perspective|date=1995|author1=Konrad Ehlich|author2=Johannes Wagner|publisher=De Gruyter Mouton|isbn=978-3110140392|page=185|quote=This also explains why bargaining spans tend to be so great at the outset: this should by no means be interpreted (as many Northwest European people would probably do) as lack of empathy or concern with the other party's standpoint, but rather a tension-creating device}}{{cite book|title=White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race|chapter=Ozawa and Thind|date=2006|author=Ian Haney López|authorlink=Ian Haney López|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-0814736944|page=75|quote="In a variety of surveys, the American population ranked Northwestern Europeans highest, then the South-Central-Eastern Europeans, in turn the Japanese and Chinese, and finally blacks." A year after the decision in Thind, Congress responded to this popular prejudice with immigration quotas}}{{cite book|title=Moving Europeans, Second Edition: Migration in Western Europe since 1650|chapter=Migration in the Twentieth Century|date=2009|author=Leslie Page Moch|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0253215956|page=186|quote=Among the immigrant groups from cultures whose religious practices and perceived appearance were distinct from those of northwestern Europeans, the Turks are most important.}}}}Neither of the three citations with quotes back up the first sentence's claim that Northwestern European people "have been identified as a distinct pan-ethnic grouping", that's clearly a novel synthesis. Hemiauchenia (talk) 03:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

:: I have now nominated Northwestern European Americans, Northwestern European Australians and Northwestern European Canadians for deletion, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northwestern European Canadians. Hemiauchenia (talk) 06:40, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

• Delete as synthesis. So many different usages are being crammed together that the page ultimately conveys no information beyond what applying basic English syntax to the title would yield, i.e., "people from a northwestern part of Europe". XOR'easter (talk) 05:00, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete as both synthesis, and being pointless. As mentioned above, one learns nothing from reading the article other than "this is what people from NW Europe are like", which is already adequately covered on the individual articles for the distinct ethnic groups that make up this apparently-made-up conglomeration. ƒirefly ( t · c ) 10:22, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete As original research. jps (talk) 10:56, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete, topic appears to be entirely WP:OR. Devonian Wombat (talk) 10:59, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete WP:SYNTH and note that the article lacks coverage of the (blood) quantum black hole that forms when a Northwest European mates with a South Eastern European. -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 14:42, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete Made-up topic. Arbitrary classifactions by demographers and a compass-point do not define a "pan-ethnic grouping". We already have too much articles about made-up "pan"-groupings here, but this one beats them all. –Austronesier (talk) 13:12, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete - Per everything said above. JurassicClassic767 (talk | contribs) 18:33, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

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:Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

:Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. Robert McClenon (talk) 06:16, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

• Delete The reference is just a mish mash of everything termed "Northwestern European" while the article fails to establish that such pan-ethnic group even existed. The fact that there are people living in NE Europe geographically does not mean that they are a pan-ethnic group. When a news article about prostate cancer is being referenced in a pan-ethnic group article it shows that the references are a bit dubious. SunDawn (talk) 01:38, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete per others. Zin Win Hlaing (talk) 09:01, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
• Delete: per others.--by Alcremie (talk) 14:47, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

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