Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denialist

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:23, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Denialist

This is at best a dicdef for a word that doesn't exist on dictionary.com, and at worst just a blatantly POV stub of political commentary 81.153.177.193 23:59, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, concurring. Frjwoolley 23:59, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• comment This is me 81.153.177.193, I am afraid I have made multiple edits to this page entirely by accident and my own ignorance of the mechanics of vfd - I was trying to fix the stuff going on on this page at the 'denialist' heading, but kept on editing this subpage as a result. I've fixed the problems now, and my own extraneous edits, I just hope my silly contributions to page histories today haven't confused everyone else as much as they've confused me 81.153.177.193 00:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete 04:45, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• A Google search turns up many people labelling others as "denialist", in relation to disputes such as whether HIV causes AIDS or whether there was a genocide in Armenia (Fun fact #1: The French for denialist is apparently négationniste. Fun fact #2: Wiktionary outdoes dictionary.com here.), and as such this appears to be a real concept. A redirect to big lie would be biased, and a redirect to denial doesn't work because that's about a concept in psychology, not politics. The content of this article is indeed biased, inasmuch as it asserts that whatever denialists oppose is the truth. It also cites no sources for its assertion that being a denialist is a route to a successful political career, when there appear to be plenty of denialists around, of various flavours, who don't even get elected. Redirect (not merge) to list of political epithets, and add a stub section there, is one option. Uncle G 05:15, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
• Delete, dictionary definition. Megan1967 05:47, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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