Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/McWorld

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The result of the debate was keep. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 03:55, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] McWorld

• Rewrite for NPOV. McWorld refers to the homogenizing effect of globalization; but I think this is different that McDonaldization, which refers to the way modern culture is resembling the nature of Speedy Service System Robbyslaughter 23:16, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• merge with McDonaldization. The rex 14:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Strong POV. Interesting term, but is it encyclopaedic? Could perhaps be turned into an interesting article, but this isn't a good start. Delete Geldart 14:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Rewrite for NPOV. It's true that McDonald's's critics have said things like this, but it's not universal, objective fact. — JIP | Talk 14:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - the page has been significantly rewritten subsequent to this vote. I would read a vote to rewrite as a conditional keep (certainly not the equivalent of a vote to delete, merge, or redirect) and would argue that in this case, the condition is a good way towards being fulfilled. -- 8^D ^gab 03:45, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
• Redirect to McDonalds. Currently hopelessly NPOV. If I remember right, "McWorld" was one of McDonalds' official advertising campaigns in the US, hence the redirect. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:31, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Anti-globalization. In the meantime, I have cleaned up some of the more blatant POVs in this article (though it isn't perfect). Issues like this one are bound to be contentious. Firebug 16:05, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. There's a famous book[1] called "Jihad vs. McWorld" that describes commercialization as one of the two great clashing forces of the 21st century. Also, the term gets over a billion google hits. Just kidding - but still, it gets 61,000. -- 8^D ^gab 16:12, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
• Keep, anything which gets two "redirect" votes in opposite directions needs to be a disambig page at least. Kappa 20:50, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as an explanation of the concept (and maybe as a disambig). - Marcika 23:25, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to McDonalds. The term was once used by them. Megan1967 07:25, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and add a side of fries and coke. Important slogan on the hippie left. Klonimus 06:41, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• If it's kept in any form, merge it with Mcdonaldization; we don't need two articles. Gazpacho 08:52, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete commie propaganda. Grue 19:13, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• I've tried to neutralize the article a little bit. Not sure if it was enough. As for now, I'd Keep and consider further and substantial revision. The concept is worthy enough. GeeZee 23:57, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but don't merge with Mcdonaldization, it's a slightly different term. SeventyThree 00:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --Myles Long 20:13, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. --204.210.200.251 18:26, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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