Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Socialist Lobotomies

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The result of the debate was - deleted - SimonP 15:09, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Socialist Lobotomies

Lobotomy is lobotomy. Distinguishing between capitalist lobotomy and socialist lobotomy is silly. Sjakkalle 13:47, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

• DELETE This "article" is barely grammatical nonsense, and its outside link is silly and fairly pointless. --Stan
• Keep and cleanup. There's a tale about this that shows up on NewsMax and other like-minded websites. It seems to be unsourced, but I will work on it and hope to turn out a short article about this phrase, the "socialist lobotomies" anecdote, and whatever lies behind it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 14:26, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. 156 hits for "Socialist Lobotomies", 6 for "Socialist Lobotomy"? Neologism, junk science, whatever. Not encyclopedic. Niteowlneils 15:53, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Now agree with Niteowlneils. I traced this to an anecdote by Ronald Radosh in his book "Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left". It's been cited a few times in reviews and limbaughist rants. Not enough to be worth an article. Perhaps may make it into Radosh's entry as it grows beyond a mere stub. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:10, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Neolojunk. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:37, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this is just POV taken from WorldNetDaily attempting to skewer "leftists" for alleged hypocrisy with regards to the Castro regime. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Firebug 00:52, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete but it should be noted that many people have undergone socialist lobotomies. Klonimus 05:17, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete While noting that many people have undergone lobotomies, I fail to understand how a lobotomy may be "socialist". --Tabor 20:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
  • How else do you explain people who spout leftist nonsense think George Monbiot and Robert Fisk . Klonimus 21:40, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Because they disagree with you. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Ben-w 00:29, 5 May 2005 (UTC).
    • Most socialists are not lobotomized. Should we make this a socialist deletion or a capitalist deletion? Sjakkalle 09:41, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. Keep and Cleanup. Play nice guys. Maybe we should link this to hypocrisy, or link it to Government of Cuba or Communist excesses or something similiar. It's encyclopedic in that it is a common reference to an actual event that was an excess of the Castro regime. It needs more background and expansion to give it better context. Sory for the brevity. I searched for a origional reference (I wanted to quote who had made the origional comment), someone with a Lexis-Nexus account should give it a whirl. If you are going to get rid of this you should get rid of Iran Contra too.

Above vote and comment by User:12.8.34.199, the creator of the article. Sjakkalle 09:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC) .

• Speedy delete as nonsense. Gamaliel 02:41, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

I propose these changes: The quote should be attributed to Suzanne Ross – then with the Indochina Peace Campaign, who later went on the found the Committee in Solidarity with the Peoples of El Salvador (CISPES) The citation for the largest proportion of lobotomies in the world is from the article [[1]] - User:12.8.34.199

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