Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Political midlife crisis

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The result was delete. ✗plicit 13:20, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Political midlife crisis (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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This is just a vague general term. It's not a notable concept or phenomenon in academia or otherwise. The article is primarily composed of WP:OR that does not use the term, as well as a few cases where individuals have used the general term in random and inconsistent ways. Thenightaway (talk) 12:27, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 12:30, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - Does the book Muqaddimah not refer to the concept?--PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 13:06, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• I can find no mention of it in my PDF of the book ("mid life", "mid-life" and "midlife" come up blank) and I see no mention of it on the very large Wikipedia page for the book. Even if the term were to be mentioned in a book, that does not mean it's notable. Thenightaway (talk) 13:14, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• The citation references page p. 285 specifically. Do you have the PDF of the 1978 Routledge publication?--PiccklePiclePikel (talk) 13:19, 29 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• delete The GBook hits are particularly telling: after the Johnson book there is nothing listed with an actual passage, indicating that it's not finding any use of the term. Regular Ghits are not much better. This seems to be a vague and unimaginative figure of speech which someone could throw at any sort of crisis tha tlooks like some sort of a turning point. Mangoe (talk) 04:43, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete looks like a notdict and GNG fail — Preceding unsigned comment added by Buidhe (talk • contribs) 22:04, 30 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:59, 31 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: There are related discussions about the article "State collapse" (which is proposed to be merged with Failed State:[1]) and "Political stagnation"(which is proposed for deletion here:[2]), which appear to have been created by the same editor. Thenightaway (talk) 13:30, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.