Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tobacco bowdlerization

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The result was delete‎. ✗plicit 11:47, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tobacco bowdlerization

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Interesting topic and research, but I am afraid this is very WP:ORish. |The very term of 'Tobacco bowdlerization' seems like a Wikipedia-only OR and does not exist in other sources. Some content from here could, perhaps, be merged to Smoking ban. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:41, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Law and Advertising. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:41, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Tobacco in the United States. While I agree with everything else @Piotrus says above, I don't see the smoking ban article as supporting this topic. The majority of the examples relate to the U.S. (even the "EMI" example is cited to a Capitol records re-release). Oblivy (talk) 01:17, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Fair point, the entire article is 100% US-centric, even through the concept is global. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:38, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete outright. "Tobacco bowdlerization" is not a term that appears in any reliable sources. (See search results, heavy with WP mirrors.) It appears to be the coining of the page creator. The only source that even refers to bowdlerization is a random comment on a Chicago Sun-Times blog post. As a result, the title is not suitable for a redirect. The content itself violates WP:NOR; many of the links are to primary source materials, and the compilation of the data is WP:SYNTH since no reliable sources that discuss this concept (under any name) are available. I don't believe this content is worth merging into another article. Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 20:44, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is pure WP:MADEUP TVTropes-esque WP:SYNTH, and most of the cases seem to merely involve the removal of cigarettes and their smoke more as visual clutter in secondary work than any attempt to 'censor' smoking, or removing it from images where it just makes no sense to have them (i.e. Goodnight Moon). Nate • (chatter) 00:13, 29 August 2024 (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.