Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ameriphobia

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 05:22, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

This article was listed on Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion on June 16. silsor 19:10, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ameriphobia

Neologism. Only 166 Google hits. Firebug 14:52, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

• Keep What is the minimum Google hits for a term? This seems like a politically motivated deletion. We have a page on Islamophobia. So why the double standard? This would be like allowing a Pro-Choice page in the abortion debate, but deleting a Pro-Life page if google didn't show enough hits.
• Delete as essentially a duplication of information that should be on Anti-American sentiment/Anti-Americanism So at best, I'd redirect there 66.94.94.154 15:35, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: I noticed on the Islamofascism debate that there's a tendency to treat etymologically similar terms as being similar in importance/notability. This is a flaw in logic. Bias and notability need to be addressed within a given article, not by pointing to other articles. (Note: I'm not assuming Islamophobia is a notable article in its own right, I'm just saying that its existence has no bearing on this article.) 66.94.94.154 15:46, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - The only standard is that neologisms are not permitted. Islamophobia gets over 100,000 hits, and thus clearly has some currency. By contrast Google gives no evidence that Ameriphobia is in common usage. - SimonP 15:37, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm sure it's a pretty common term, no matter how many Google hits it gets. But it's also a very POV term. The article attempts to document a irrational hatred of Americans based on "the belief that all or most Americans are stupid, fat, bad, racist, or generally inferior" and labels it with a special term "Ameriphobia". This explanation for anti-American prejudice has some merit, but it's already discussed in existing articles. Creating a separate article for this idea and giving it a talk-show-style name has no purpose but to further somebody's political agenda. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. ---Isaac R 17:49, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm confused by your comment. If it's a common term, why shouldn't Wikipedia document it, even though its usage is POV? If it's common, how is documenting it using Wikipedia as a soapbox? (Actually, though, it's not common. So redirect to Anti-Americanism, which it doesn't seem to be any different in usage from.) Nickptar 22:51, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Certainly the word deserves documentation. But that doesn't mean giving the word its own article. Since Wikipedia is not a dictionary, we don't have articles for every single widely-used word. ---Isaac R 23:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete. IMO it's bizarre to expect Wikipedia to have any meaningful content on subjects such as this one anyway. NPOV is unobtainable even if we could define it for this subject area, and I don't think we can even do that. So my feeling is, no big deal either way. Andrewa 18:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - DavidWBrooks 18:31, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Just a POV rant. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 18:39, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• STRONG DELETE Stancel 21:09, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Mcfly85 22:37, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, neologism. Megan1967 06:35, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

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