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This article was nominated for deletion on 15 March 2018. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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Justin Ward (March 12, 2018). "Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on March 12, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018. Though [the Differential K Theory article] contains one or two lines of criticism, most of the academic responses included are from other researchers affiliated with the Ulster Institute or Pioneer Fund, like Lynn and Michael A. Woodley.

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I don't think this page should be deleted (and it definitely doesn't qualify for uncontroversial deletion, which is what PROD is for). Differential K theory seems to easily pass Wikipedia's notability guidelines - of course saying that it's notable is completely independent from issues like whether it's debunked, fringe, correct, etc, etc. In any case, "walled garden of racialist research publications" is wrong. Personality and Individual Differences is peer-reviewed with respectable academics on its editorial board. https://www.elsevier.com/journals/personality-and-individual-differences/0191-8869/editorial-board NPalgan2 (talk) 23:56, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You have misread my comments. Simply because Rushton managed to get it published in a more-or-less reputable journal doesn't change the fact that the only coverage of it from outside the walled garden of racialist publications has been criticism. And not much of that. So it's off to AfD, then.

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00:12, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Chmalyn: There's not much more to say about this fringe theory so rationally it should be merged into Race, Evolution, and Behavior, the book where this topic is mostly discussed. Onetwothreeip (talk) 02:30, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]