Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-Georgianism

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 06:40, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Anti-Georgianism

Another ethnic animosities page. Unfortunately there are precedents for such pages that have been kept (and this one has evidently used one of those as a blueprint). But this is particularly weak specimen. It doesn't even attempt to make a case that its subject-matter constitutes a coherent phenomenon and that it has been discussed in such terms in the literature. Its main assertions are entirely unsourced. The largest part of the article is taken up by a discussion not of "Anti-Georgianism", but of "Russification" (in Georgia but mainly elsewhere) - but if the author wants to imply that Russification is ipso facto Anti-Georgianism, that would be an OR argument par excellence. Apart from that, the article features a propaganda poster illustrating Georgian animosity against Russian political interventionism - but that, if anything, reflects Anti-Russian propaganda by Georgians, not Anti-Georgianism by Russians. All in all, just another case of the "Anti-X'ism" article format being misused for OR listings of just any and all grievances ethnicity X may have against its neighbours, and as such almost certainly a POV-fork (though I'm not sure of what). Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:31, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete this particular incarnation per nom (and a very impressive nom at that, I must say). If anti-Georgianism does in fact exist as something of a similar significance as some of the other "anti-Xisms" of history and culture, no prejudice at all against recreating an article reflecting this. Likewise, if citations and the like can be provided, no objections to a move to another title, although I can't for the life of me think what yet. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 12:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Yet another example of creating "anti-anything" neologism on Wikipedia and adding bunch of mostly unrelated events into it. Pavel Vozenilek 14:02, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Another anti-category, very rarely used in scholarly, let alone common, society. Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought.--WaltCip 13:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above.--Kf4bdy ^{talk contribs} 18:20, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Rename - the common name is "anti-Georgia" and results in 10K google hits. The term anti-Georgianism though is a neologism and gets 7 hits. I would recommend renaming the article to "Russia and anti-Georgia actions" or something to that effect. --Deodar 23:37, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Comment - not quite. "Anti-Georgia" is an adjective (in that one can have "anti-Georgia policies"), while "anti-Georgianism" should by rights be the noun and the preferable article title of the two. Further, some of the Google hits for "anti-Georgia" are in fact dealing with biases against the US state of the same name, particularly in a College Football sense. The bulk seem to be about Russia's perceived view of the state in the Caucasus, but it's still being used adjectivally. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 00:19, 28 October 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.