Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Left-wing Authoritarianism

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 05:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Left-wing Authoritarianism

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original research and inherent violation of Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Basically, a dressed-up way of saying "Ann Coulter correctly thinks that all liberals are authoritarians." NawlinWiki 21:48, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. GlassCobra (talk • contribs) 21:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Cliff Notes version of an Ann Coulter book. Mandsford 22:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Unreferenced, unsalvageably POV essay. Iain99Balderdash and piffle 22:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Blatant soapboxing, and the author seems to be an SPA. Blueboy96 22:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per authorative commands from left wing. Artw 22:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - Supermassive POV hole. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 23:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Per above.--SJP 23:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Hillary made me say it. :) MarkBul 23:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
    • Commment But seriously folks, serious WP:SOAP MarkBul 23:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete worthless bilge - no sources provided whatsoever. I understand that this is a cribbed summary of a book by Ann Coulter. Hope the original is better. Bigdaddy1981 00:23, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per tons of OR unverified thus per nom.--JForget 00:26, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. It seems that a serious article could be created with this title - Hans Eysenck, no less, wrote Left-Wing Authoritarianism: Myth or Reality? in Political Psychology in 1982. It was a response, it seems, to The Myth of Left-Wing Authoritarianism by William F. Stone in the same journal. Nevertheless, the current article is a clear violation of WP:NPOV and WP:OR as it stands. Ann Coulter and Godless are probably not reliable sources for political psychology topics. --TreeKittens 02:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletions. —TreeKittens 02:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. Treat it exactly the same way right wing authoritarianism is treated and for the same reasons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.223.53.122 (talk) 03:17, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
I agree, right wing authoritarianism seems similar soapboxery - im nominating it for deletion, also. Bigdaddy1981 16:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. We already have left-wing fascism, a well-documented phenomenon. This is just Ann Coulter trolling. --Dhartung | Talk 04:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - seems to be nothing but soapboxing and original research. Sephiroth BCR (Converse) 07:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Right-wing authoritarianism is a well-known social psychological concept with roots in Adorno, but this article purportedly describing left-wing authoritarianism reads as if it were simply copied from that article and slightly altered, resulting in an outright fabrication. Valerius 03:05, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. This is literally a copy/paste of the article Right-wing Authoritarianism with "left" substituted for "right". CronoDAS 03:24, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
In that case, can it be speedied as a derivative of a GFDL violation? Blueboy96 01:38, 15 September 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.