Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thaksinocracy

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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:11, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thaksinocracy

hoax or non-notable Anthony Appleyard 18:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. I don't think it's a hoax after reading this article[1]. zephyr2k 18:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
• Xinua, The Nation, The People's Daily, and Knowing Thaksin would all disagree. Keep. Uncle G 18:46, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
• Del per nom, or create Criticism of Thaksin or somesuch. Non-notable neologism. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 19:56, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
  • You noticed the three major news agencies and a book that have noted this concept, didn't you? Moreover, "Criticism of" articles are inhenerently non-neutral, and are a bad idea. Uncle G 07:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• keep - UtherSRG (talk) 16:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• Del The article is about an individual's political criticisms of a specific politician. A soapbox, basically. It makes no attempt at a NPOV (noting that critics are jealous doesn't make it NPOV). I thought Wikipedia wasn't a soapbox. Criticisms of Thaksin appear in the Thaksin Shinawatra article, which gives weight to both his supporters as well as his critics. Patiwat 18:42, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, this term is pretty famous now. Google test for Thai word (ระบอบทักษิณ [2]) cames out almost 70,000; pretty high number since Google doesn't recognize Thai in-sentence words --Manop - TH 22:11, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

• Arguably the the article might be a better fit to the Thai Wikipedia. But read the Wikipedia policy against articles on neologisms. Criticisms of a politician's policies should be located in a biographical article or in articles about specific policies, e.g., George W. Bush or War on Terror. The general political views of a public intellectual belong in an article about the person's general views, e.g., Politics of Noam Chomsky. But an article about an individual's general criticisms of an individual politician turns Wikipedia into a soapbox. Patiwat 03:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, the term has a significant impact to Thai society. This article merits to be included in wikipedia; however the currect version need to be re-worked and NPOVed. underexpose 17:58, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, obviously notable and not a neologism. —Nightstallion (?) 10:56, 13 September 2006 (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.