Talk:Anti-homosexualism

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[edit] Anti-homosexualism

Here is where issues about "Anti-homosexualism" can be discussed. --Britcom 10:14, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Should this page be deleted?

Here is what has been said about this page on the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-homosexualism page:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-homosexualism DicDef. Nothing useful here that can't be handled by a Wiktionary entry, to the limited extent that the term even exists as a distinct word. Article is just an exercise in polemics. Herostratus 08:41, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Lets see what happened here.
  • (cur) (last) 04:51, September 1, 2006 Moriori (Talk | contribs) (Redirect instead of delete)
  • (cur) (last) 04:39, September 1, 2006 Herostratus (Talk | contribs) (AfD)
  • (cur) (last) 04:15, September 1, 2006 Britcom (Talk | contribs) (Stub)
Hmmm. as we can see here the page was first created at 04:15. I wasn't even done editing it when Herostratus surfed in and posted the AfD on it at 04:39. and then it disappeared altogether when Moriori redirected it to "homophobia", a page with many, many questions of neutrality, not to mention that "homophobia" has nothing whatsoever to do with anti-homosexualism. Why would Herostratus and Moriori be so blindingly quick to judge a page that was not even an hour old and was not even finished being created? I have reverted it now and continue to add more to it. I would appreciate it if everyone would lay off the page until I have had a chance to flesh it out.
I took a look at Herostratus' user page, and now I think I know what his problem with this page is, and it has nothing to do with "usefulness". He states on his user page that he is a Unitarian Universalist, a well known pro-homosexual organization. UU is something that I am quite familiar with. So it appears that he may have a bias against the subject matter of the page, rather than concern about the usefulness of the page. The reason I created this page is because "anti-homosexualism" is a plank in the KKK's supremacist philosophy and the Nazi's final solution and deserves its own article. I suspect that Herostratus' is trying to silence the article rather than add to its usefulness. This is a serious subject, and it deserves serious attention. "Homophobia" on the other hand, is not a political philosophy and is a pejorative created and promoted by pro-homosexual activists for use against those that oppose their agenda and therefore has no relationship to this article. Anyone doubting that should read both pages and judge for themselves. --Britcom 11:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV-pushing

As you can tell from the current state of the AfD debate, I think an article on Anti-homosexualism should exist in Wikipedia. However, this article in its current state has maybe 5% of its space devoted to the concept and 95% of its space devoted to selected examples. This is problematic because the selection of examples is always a matter of opinion and accusations of POV-pushing are inevitable and understandable depending on the examples chosen. An encyclopedia should have an article explaining the term and its usage using cited references, and an essay-writer or historian could then select examples using the term. Rather than selecting examples, I hope your first level of categorization is according to "types" as done in the Anti-semitism article. I hope you can find a reference or two that supports the categorization you choose. Another alternative I hope you consider is a much shorter article as in the Judeophobia article. Flying Jazz 15:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)