Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Demodoxalogy


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The result was   delete. JForget 21:48, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Demodoxalogy

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Meaning the study of public opinion. I think it is undeniable that as English word this is a neologism. It would of course be easy to move the article and change it to a description of the Società Italiana Di Demodoxalogia (Italian Society of Demodoxalogy) but in that case we run into the question of notability. There are no independent references and it:Demodoxalogia does not seem much better. &mdash; RHaworth 02:50, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not only what User:RHaworth said, but this article is a clutter of confusion.  My eyes hurt.... -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 03:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I repeat here what already inserted in the discussion of voice: I do not know if you have already read:

i am not an expert on wikipedia and i do not express very well in english, so i hope not to have done something wrong in the procedure: i removed the proposed deletion and here i explain the reasons, ok? so, 'Demodoxalogy' is not a neologism: currently is not reported correctly in dictionaries because of the historical facts about the discipline, but it is used since 1940 (in italian, english, french...) as reported by F. A. Perini-Bembo, an early and leading experts in these studies, in the congress of the prestiogious SIPS Italian Society for the Advancement of Science in 1954. should be precisely one of the greatest interest of the encyclopaedia in the subject! Demodoxalogy is a little known approach to the study of public opinion (journalism and information...) for these reasons: it begins to be defined in 1928, at the time of the fascism in italy, and is developed in Italy and not in USA (center of communication studies). In a document of UNESCO (1954), the 'Center of demodossalogia' (Public Opinion Centre) at University of Rome 'Sapienza' is mentioned among the leading institutions in Italy and Europe for training of journalists. SIDD (italian association of demodoxalogy) is currently the only nonprofit organization (little but notable) that brings together scholars and takes care of the recent renewed interest in demodoxalogy.Br1z in conclusion: I just have shown at the Wikipedia community that there would be this article to translate into english, if i'm wrong, sorry!Br1z (talk) 08:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Sorry, I can't make sense of it and there is no evidence of any significant currency for the term. Guy (Help!) 08:09, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. Thanks, but article in in Italian (in my opinion, it is not so confused) there are many references to publications (those of SIPS are also in some American libraries). If it is sufficient that the word 'demodoxalogy' now is not in the English vocabulary, then ok: I repeat, there are historical reasons why the rules exist, but there are also texts/books about demodoxalogy translated into English... According to UNESCO (the UN) does not seem so irrelevant in the :document(page 17/19) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Br1z (talk • contribs) 08:28, 2 October 2009 (UTC) Br1z (talk) 08:30, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Wait until more stuff translated from Italian, and, if still failing as a stand-alone article, merge with Public_opinion --Arkelweis (talk) 11:45, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment -- I suspect that this is a WP:NEO in English, based on transliteration of an established Italian term. If so, it probably needs to be merged somewhere, but I have not investigated.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:48, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I cannot see it is actually a separate field. In the cite above from Unesco, Unesco translates it as "public opinion" (p.17).  I don;t know what books might have been translated into English, as worldcat does not contain this word in any title. There are 9 entries with the Itallian word as "demodossalogia" and none under "Demodoxalogia" -- none of them have English translations. There's an article Erik Vroons "Communication Studies in Europe: A Sketch of the Situation around 1955 " in International Communication Gazette  in which I find   only 1 mention of this, footnote 44: :"In Perugia, in 1939, the Centre of Demodoxalogy was established. Orano, Piccioni, Perini- Bembo and other scholars all played a leading role in this. They witnessed the acceptance of journalism as the science and art of public opinion. It was therefore thought that the history of journalism should not be confounded with the history of the press. Journalism was to be considered a social-psychological phenomenon, distinguished from the instrumental notion of journalism."    DGG ( talk ) 23:43, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
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