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[edit] Ideological Nomadism

Slowtrain - forgive me if I've picked you as the wrong user but you seem to have edited logged out. I answer to your questions regarding your below comments/questions

Peripitus - I disagree with your assessment of the article ideological nomadism and its subsequent deletion despite its reasonable comprehensiveness and supporting references. First, its is not a "walled garden" and it is definitely not an essay. Just because you cannot "find any reference to ideological nomadism as a topic" does not mean it is not a valid concept. As you admitted, you have only done a very limited investigation of the concept and by your admission, your only source is "not up-to-date and often misses things". To reduce the concept to "words in a sentence", in my opinion, would be disingenous. Especially, in view of the well accepted concepts with comparative contexts, for example "group think", identity crisis, etc. I was waiting to hear more comments on the article besides yours, which started out as "low number of google searches" as reason for initially flagging the article for deletion. Obviously, the author of the article and those who edited it spent time and energy on it. To quash all that just because a single person don't agree with the concept seems to me a little egocentric. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.152.86.214 (talk • contribs) 03:19, 1 September 2006.

The comment about a Walled Garden refers to the fact that there are a sequence of artices, apparently created and edited by one person, that only refer and link to themselves. Myself and others cannot find any reference that the concept of Ideological Nomadism has any significance in the wider world. The closed nature of the articles ( where no articles out side the loop refer to them ) and the lack of information we could find supporting the article inexorably leads to the conclusion that it represented original research for the purposes of wikipedia. It appeared that the article was based entirely on the material in the book Tribalizing America which represents the opinion of the author rather being a peer reviewed scholarly work.
If you wish you can list the article for deletion review to have it relooked at ? Peripitus (Talk) 06:37, 1 September 2006 (UTC)