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The result was delete. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:31, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Estonia as a Nordic country (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Article seems to be an essay advocating a specific point of view: that Estonia is a 'Nordic' country and not a 'Baltic' one. (The Estonian language is related to Finnish, but not to either the Scandinavian languages or the Baltic languages of Lithuania or Latvia.)

Defining a country in this way is obviously a complex, contentious thing (is the UK a 'Germanic country'?), and I'm concerned that the article has no academic citations defining 'Nordic countries' or how Estonia does (and does not) resemble them. In addition, the article does not cover topics like the large minority of people of Russian ethnicity and other ethnic groups in Estonia. Blythwood (talk) 18:22, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Humble sidenote: How is the immigration of foreign immigrants during an illegal foreign occupation related to a country belonging to a cultural entity? Do the close to 10% of Muslim immigrants in Sweden make Sweden a non-Nordic country? H2ppyme (talk) 06:24, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Estonia-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, essay and opinion piece. --Soman (talk) 22:35, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Wikipedia is not for essays/opinion pieces. Joseph2302 (talk) 23:28, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete By WP:N and WP:ESSAY, this article obviously should be deleted. Furthermore, the article has no citations (WP:REFERENCE). ♪ Alberto79 ♪ ^{talk-Contributions} 00:21, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - Essay/Opinion. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 01:47, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, synthesis in form of an essay. Sander Säde 07:59, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Essay. Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 10:24, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete There's a viable article covering this topic in some way (as I understand it, many Estonians identify with the Nordic countries, though many also don't), but this content isn't useful in developing it. Nick-D (talk) 10:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sidenote There is a debate going on, which in some, perhaps not this form should be included in Wikipedia. However I don't think there are "many" Estonians, who don't identify Estonia as a Nordic country. H2ppyme (talk) 15:28, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Where is this debate going on? --Soman (talk) 15:45, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as stand alone article. Any RS cited points can be incorporated into other relevant articles. It is a synthesis/essay (as noted above) with OR problems. Kierzek (talk) 14:37, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to Estonia. Not worth keeping as a separate article as it seems to only push forward one viewpoint. JIP | Talk 19:56, 4 January 2016 (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.