Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peaceful Anarchism

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 Speedy delete g1, patent nonsense/hoax. NawlinWiki 20:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peaceful Anarchism

Peaceful Anarchism (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

I had originally mistakenly listed this as a PROD. I believe a discussion is warranted. However, my concern is that a) ""George Wattson" and the cited book do not in fact exist and b) as the article itself admits, no one follows this "variation." Is this notable? Does Wattson or this movemment actually exist? Shawn in Montreal 20:05, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I thought I should just point out that the above red link to a non-existent Afd page for "Craig David" is not mine. I believe an anon IP user just pasted the text into the list without following any nomination steps. Can I just delete it? I know non-admins are not supposed to delete stuff from the list but this is not really ON the list. Shawn in Montreal 21:00, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Peacefully Delete - OR and total WP:BOLLOCKS. "The name was coined early in the 1990s shortly after knowlege of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto became well known to the North American general public". I can't quite put my finger on why, but I suspect one or two of the North American general public had heard of Communism before that. (Apparently there were these countries called Russia and China. I believe the public could conceivably have heard of Cuba and Vietnam, too.) Zero Ghits on the alleged book governing this "movement", unsurprisingly. — iridescenti (talk to me!) 21:12, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

God, I'm embarassed to admit that I kind of glossed over the blatant nonsense about the Communist Manifesto becoming well known in the 1990s. I'm more convinced that this is a simple hoax by a junior high school student. User:I AM BORED hasn't responded and his user page "I am so very bored... poetry is gay" doesn't exactly inspire confidence.Shawn in Montreal 14:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

• Comment - Looking at the article it seems many of the articles related to anarchy use improper capitalization. Maybe should be more like: Anarchist_communism --Remi 00:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete POV fork--Sefringle 04:23, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - Seems that if this is a philosophical stance that a reasonable (even if relatively small) percentage of Anarchists take, and it can be documented through published sources that it should be kept or... perhaps, the peaceful stance of "Peaceful anarchism" could be noted in the main Anarchy article. --Remi 08:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps. My only comment on that is that the main Anarchism article already has a wealth of info on "peaceful" anarchism. It's not like violent anarchism is the baseline and this peaceful business is something new. Shawn in Montreal 14:29, 25 April 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.