Talk:Poverty pimp

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For a September 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Poverty pimp

Why wasn't this deleted? -- Chaz

Beats me. I was the one who nominated this for deletion, and the delete votes outnumbered the keep votes by about two to one. These sorts of things occasionally happen, and the Wikipedia ends up with mediocre articles that stand no chance of improving as a result. --Ardonik.talk()* 09:06, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
Maybe because you complainers should start by cleaning out truly irrelevant stuff, like the hundreds of Star Trek articles, before attacking articles that actually have relevance.

This article would seem to put forward a testable proposition, and thus be a good place for some numerical estimates, given that there are publically available figures for income distribution, charitable giving, and welfare schemes. All we need now is a definition of "poverty"1, and we can work out the total income shortfall, and then compare this with the total expenditure.

Gentlemen, start your engines.

[1]: of course, we can all agree on that, for starters, can't we?

I don't think this is the place for a detailed analysis of the problem of poverty and attempts to solve it. If anywhere, poverty would be a better place to start on that. This article seems fine to me as is though; it's a phrase that is occasionally used as part of political discourse and represents one particular opinion on the issue. --Delirium 07:22, August 26, 2005 (UTC)


The sole external link seems to be mostly defunct. There is text, but it's unformatted HTML code. --ConDissenter 02:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reliable sources

Here are some reliable sources that can be used to expand this. I will expand this list little by little:

These are sources about the actual term, in accordance with WP:NEO. Any future attempts at deletion should take these into account. Also, a google search reveals many, many usages of the term. Grandmasterka 03:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia cited in news article for poverty pimps

Here in the Palo Alto Daily News[3] the term is defined and Wikipedia mentioned as the source.TalkAbout 15:27, 5 March 2007 (UTC)