Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blairism


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The result was  Keep (NAC) RMHED (talk) 23:04, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Blairism

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This looks like a mess of WP:SYNTHESIS rather than an actual term or ideology. Excluding the WP:BLP fun of just naming people, we have essentially a summary of Tony Blair's views and some theories as to what is popular about them. This article doesn't do much other than Blair and Brown disagree, this article just uses the terms Brownite and Blairite in the same Americans would use Bush and Obama, defining their administrations, not their policies. This doesn't add anything really, but I'll admit this is probably a good reliable source on point. Ricky81682 (talk) 04:33, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep. You don't think that 'Blairite' is a term that's regularly used independently of what Blair did in office? I think you'll find it is, and that the media still talk of a 'Blairite' faction (in both Labour and the Conservatives, as it happens). Bastin 10:02, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - but perhaps rename to "Blairite". The term is a significant one in the past decade of British politics. --Paularblaster 17:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Strong Keep - this term is widely used to describe Tony Blair's leadership style or policy agenda, even if there is disagreement about its substance.--Pondle (talk) 17:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:05, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:05, 3 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. "+Blairism OR +Blairite" gets 15,000 Google news hits. The media obviously thinks such a thing exists, so it'd be churlish of us to think we know better. There's also thousands of scholarly articles using the terms and hundreds of books. Alan Milburn is still often described as a Blairite, so it's by no means just a description of what Tony Blair thinks. Fences  &amp;  Windows  22:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
 * p.s. I don't think listing Labour politicians as Blairites is a real BLP concern. Such references should be cited of course, but this is hardly an area where we risk libelling or harming someone. Fences  &amp;  Windows  22:53, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
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