Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dominion of Trinidad and Tobago

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The result was merge to Trinidad and Tobago. Tone 11:23, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dominion of Trinidad and Tobago

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There has never been an entity known as the "Dominion of Trinidad and Tobago". Between 1962 and 1976 Trinidad and Tobago was an independent country that retained Queen Elizabeth as its head of state, but it was never a "Dominion". Legally it was simply "Trinidad and Tobago"; the 1962 Constitution doesn't mention the term "dominion". The Independence Act only uses the term when it says that military forces raised in TT will be treated as those raised in Dominions under a law passed in 1933, before the idea of independent non-Dominions had been envisioned.

This is not to say that the term was never used - there are some examples of usage on the talk page, but they are vanishingly few and none constitute more than passing mention. It's a reasonable colloquial term that someone familiar with the usage of "Dominion" as it was used for countries that became independent before WWII (and for a few of the early stages of independence of some of the others), Wikipedia shouldn't be in the practice of making up names for countries that they don't, themselves, use. Guettarda (talk) 19:42, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Trinidad and Tobago-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:50, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 21:12, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete/Merge The Dominion of T&T is the same entity as T&T, just with the Queen as head of state rather than its president. Trinidad_and_Tobago#Post-independence_era and History_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago#20th-century_political_development are the place for this constitutional change, not an article describing a fictional entity. Reywas92^Talk 21:56, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Trinidad and Tobago. It might be a plausible search term, so could perhaps be a redirect. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 03:23, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the appropriate history articles. There was never a polity with this name.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:14, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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