Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knowledge wars

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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 18:32, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Knowledge wars

This phrase had a brief currency in referring to the Middle East debate, but died out as expected. Google shows almost all current references as meaning something different. Today it is barely used and there is nothing to say here that wouldn't be better said on some other MidEast-related page.

old vfd page

  • Delete for reasons stated above. --Zero 12:31, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete: Faded rose, ancient craze, former phrase. Geogre 13:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Can we merge this content with another page? Scanning the old VfD makes me wonder: if there was "plenty of potential" for expansion as some users claimed, then why haven't they done so in the last five months? --Viriditas | Talk 14:45, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, Middle East-cruft. - Mustafaa 23:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete non notable phrase. JamesBurns 23:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Correct the mistake that was made in the previous VfD. The article that survived that VfD was erroneous, and claimed that the term referred to some kind of intercollegiate rivalry between Columbia and the University of London. In fact it was simply a neologism used by a single professor to describe campus debate over Middle East issues. A poorly-chosen neologism that was recorded in only a single article in an online political magazine, it suffered a well-deserved death. Note: links to Knowledge wars were inserted in many WP articles, unjustifiably in my opionion. They should all be removed. Quale 10:03, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.