Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ableism

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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 was Keep. Cbrown1023 talk 00:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ableism

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Unsourced. Appeared to be a neologism. Not used a single published legal opinion within the last five years.[1] (state), [2] (federal). Delete. --Nlu (talk) 16:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep. Meets the "I've seen this in use before seeing it in Wikipedia" test. The word appears in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary (2d), which dates it to 1985-1990. As a neologism it seems to have adequate currency, even if lawyers have better taste than to use it. - Smerdis of Tlön 17:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, the topic is notable. This AFD is complaining about the name, not the topic; a bad reason for AFD, a better reason for a renaming proposal. The article doesn't deal with the history of the word and yet is more than a dicdef. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 17:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. For reasons stated above. --Loremaster 20:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - per the ISTIUBSITW test. Smmurphy(Talk) 22:33, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Title not in common use and is a loaded inversion of social issues involved. Article does not address topic broadly enough or document it extensively enough to justify an independent article that will make it less likely for readers to find it. Appears to be completely redundant with disability rights article under discrimination series (redirect?). Ashmedai 23:43, 20 March 2007 (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.