Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Economic fallacy

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 05:32, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Economic fallacy

Several problems with the article. 1) the title "Economic fallacy" is a bit of a misnomer. Everyone agrees on what the "fallacy of composition" is. There isn't a single "economic fallacy" with the same consistent definition. 2) the content of the article is mainly a POV-heavy critique of the lending practices of the World Bank and IMF. Criticsm of those institutions is already well documented in their respective articles. For those two reasons, a merge or a redirect don't seem useful to me... I think it's better just to delete the page. Feco 19:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete The current content is a POV essay, and even if it were replaced, I'm not sure what we'd write in an article about economic fallacies. A fallacy under one theory can be perfectly valid under another. Rhobite 19:37, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. POV rant. android↔talk 20:29, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)
• I recently saw a short text made for university use about popular misconceptions about economics, but it was something of a POV piece. Feco and Rhobite are right; the title isn't really salvageable. Nor is an article that begins "To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck” a likely candidate to merge... Delete. Samaritan 22:56, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: rant. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:35, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, POV rant. Megan1967 07:24, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; this article is poorly written and unencyclopedic, and it is inherently POV to brand specific economic theories as "fallacies" using the Wikipedia authoritative voice. Firebug 16:57, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• My first suspicion was that this was a recreation of the deleted Economic superstitions (which was, itself, a recreation of Economics superstition) but it's not. This is a new POV rant. Delete. Rossami (talk) 23:22, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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