Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lusophobia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was no consensus. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 11:31, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lusophobia

This article seems poorly cited, has a strong POV and was given as an example in the recent India Basher AfD discussion. I added a plea for references some time ago, which went unanswered, and searched for a place to suggest it be merged. But I think it is worth discussing whether this artice is perhaps unsalvagable and should be deleted. I personally abstain. ++Lar: t/c 22:08, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, fails Google test. Seems to be a joke -phobia word. -- 9cds^(talk) 23:47, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• No Vote I get 133 Google Hits [1]. The word seems to exist outside of wikipedia but it is a notable concept. Eluchil404 06:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Proto///type 14:39, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom and per failure of the Google test. -- Kicking222 21:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete not per google test, but for a compleat lack of sources. ---J.S (t|c) 22:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete No Sources, this is probably fake. Sumergocognito 01:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No sources, low google output, I've never heard of this though I work on several Portugal-related articles. Grandmasterka 04:30, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I didn't start this article but I wrote some words there. The word Lusophobia is used and has a meaning. In Portuguese it is Lusofobia and expresses hostility toward Portugal or the Portuguese language. It is like Anglophobia, Afrophobia, Judeophobia, Russophobia or Serbophobia. It would be a big mistake to delete this article. Page Up 12:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - If we have articles like anglophobia or russophobia, lusophobia is also notable. It's true that it seems like original research, but only because it is unreferenced, despite that, it contains valid content. I think we should contact the user who wrote the article and ask him for the references, instead of just deleting the article. If he can't indicate the source, then we could delete it. Afonso Silva 17:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I've contacted the creator of the article and asked him to reference it. Afonso Silva 21:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - I've added a reference to the use of the term in a Brazilian context [2] - perhaps it might be more appropriate for an article to be put on the Portuguese language Wikipedia. I thought that the link to the Geoffrey Hull article covered its use in the context of East Timor and Australia would have sufficed (although virtually nobody in Australia apart from him would know what the term means). However, I admit that the term in this context is more tendentious, which is why I've removed the sentences about language, and Paul Keating did use those words about Portugal. Nevertheless, the term and the concept Lusophobia certainly did exist in 19th century Brazil. By the way, Lar, they're called citations, not cites! Quiensabe 11:23, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per PageUp and the fact that the article now reads okay and is referenced. Janet13 05:33, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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.