Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mullahcracy

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The result was no consensus. —Mets501 (talk) 02:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Mullahcracy"

This page acknowledges that the term was coined in testimony given in March 2006 as hyperbole or otherwise rhetorical use in reference to the position of Mullah. Consider the name; it does not fit with autocracy, democracy, theocracy in that it is clearly a neologism and the specifics describe the government of Iran rather than a generic discussion of a type of government (it is clearly a sub-type of theocracy if anything). While we do cover those once they become established, a use of the word in a hyperbolic context to describe Iran doesn't qualify as an encyclopedic topic. This certainly shouldn't be in the main politics side bar if it is covered. Jondeere 07:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Doesn't really seem to be made up a couple of months ago; here is an article from 2000 using the word. 10 hits on Google Scholar[1], 43,700 on the web[2] (includes duplicates). Weregerbil 11:43, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Iran is the founder of this type of government. Lebanon in 1980s and Bahrain in 1981 were on the verge of becoming mullahcracies after Iran, too.--Patchouli 01:47, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the vast majority of the google hits are blogs, and the page from whitehouse.gov that is second on the results page doesn't seem to include the word. If it was acctually mentioned objectively in print, I might think differently. --Musaabdulrashid 03:22, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Politics of Iran, where it should maybe have a brief mention if more reliable sources can be found. Yes, the word appears to be in marginal use, but generally as a pejorative (U.S.) description of the Iranian system of government, and not as an actual system of government that can discussed seperately from the Iranian system or that can be found elsewhere than in Iran. As such, the article is at best a content fork of Politics of Iran and more likely a non-notable dicdef. Sandstein 05:02, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom; WP:NOT a dictionary, especially for redundant protologisms. We have Politics of Iran and Theocracy, so we don't need this. Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect as per Sandstein. The Google Scholar hits that Weregerbil pointed out are adequate evidence that the term is indeed in actual use, but the redirection is the appropriate method of handling it at this time. GRBerry 13:19, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per Sandstein, common pejorative term. --CharlotteWebb 12:18, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia redirect every supposed pejorative term? I is another one off the top of my head, shemale.--Patchouli 16:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I wish I could come up with a better example because mullahcracy has no sexual connotation. My point is redirecting perceived negative terms holistically.--16:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Rename it 'velayat-e faqi'. It's not perjorative and it refers to the exact same thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.106.93.206 (talk • contribs)

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.