Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Middle Colonies

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The result was Withdrawn gwickwire | Leave a message 23:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Middle Colonies

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Seems it would be better merged into Thirteen Colonies or another article, instead of seperating them like this. gwickwire | Leave a message 22:26, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose "Middle Colonies" is the term of choice by historians for 100+ years. The Middle colonies are grouped together because of similarity and they differ sharply from the New England and Southern colonies in terms of culture, politics, economics & slavery. For details on this see Wayne Bodle, "Themes and Directions in Middles Colonies Historiography, 1980-1994," William and Mary Quarterly, July 1994, Vol. 51 Issue 3, pp 355-88 in JSTOR and Douglas Greenberg, "The Middle Colonies in Recent American Historiography," William and Mary Quarterly, July 1979, Vol. 36 Issue 3, pp 396-427 in JSTOR Rjensen (talk) 01:51, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Article provides good information on an area with shared history, geography, economy, etc; Thirteen Colonies doesn't provide this information, and merging this and the comparable articles New England Colonies and Southern Colonies into Thirteen Colonies would make it very large. Having a hierarchical structure where Thirteen Colonies links to this and this links to the individual colonies allows people to explore the topic at different levels of detail. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:44, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - As pointed out above, the Middle Colonies are covered as a distinct grouping in books and journals; also see this as an example of this being the topic for an entire book. -- Whpq (talk) 16:15, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Withdrawn after further review by self. gwickwire | Leave a message 23:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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