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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:06, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of The American influence on toys for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The American influence on toys is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The American influence on toys until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. 1l2l3k (talk) 02:29, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Article deletion

I saw the notification of this. I have to agree with the concerns posed at the deletion discussion. This is an original research essay as you take sourcing and use it to create new conclusions and theories.

One example of this is the Barbie section. You cite IMDb as a source, however this isn't usable as a source on Wikipedia because it accepts user submitted content and doesn't properly verify everything that is added. This means that the plot keywords were most likely submitted by various site users, some of whom probably thought it would be funny to submit plot key words about the female cast members' attributes. You also write that Barbie had an impact on NASA developing makeup kits for its female astronauts and use the Atlantic as a source, however the source doesn't actually state that Barbie was the impetus for this and it would be considered original research to assume that she was the reason for this. The reason, according to this source was that it was a mix of NASA assuming that women would want makeup and one of the female astronauts (Rhea Seddon) making a request for some items, as she wanted to look good for photographs, as she didn't want to washed out. Barbie didn't even really seem to have factored into this at all.

There are a lot of issues like this in the article, so it all needs to be addressed. I like one of the suggestions at the deletion discussion, that the article instead be about the history of toys in the United States, as that would be a good focus. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:48, 6 December 2018 (UTC)