Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dirty Subsidy


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The result was delete. Black Kite (talk) 22:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Dirty Subsidy

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Sources for this term virtually all post-date the article according to Google. This is suggested to be a term used in economic but there aren't academic sources for it. It appears to be original research and a neologism that the article is inadvertently promoting. Doug Weller talk 13:28, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Merge then delete - I don’t know the topic well enough to suggest a target (or targets)... but the article contains a lot of well sourced material that deserves to be presented somewhere (else) in Wikipedia. Blueboar (talk) 14:13, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. L3X1  ◊distænt write◊  16:36, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Economics-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:40, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Environment-related deletion discussions. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:40, 15 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge to dirty subsidy, from which a large chunk was copied without attribution in this edit. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:41, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * The whole Fossil Fuels section is also plagiarized wholesale from this paper from the Center for Economic Studies. Leaving it up for now per WP:SNOWBALL. The Mighty Glen (talk) 17:03, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete both articles per Calton and Doug Weller below, and at Articles for deletion/Dirty subsidy. You're both right. The Mighty Glen (talk) 16:57, 16 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge then delete as above .PRehse (talk) 16:56, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete this and Dirty subsidy unless there's some evidence that this is a term as defined that is actually being used as such. Yes, they're well-sourced, but the sources are in support of an argued premise, not summaries of its use. --Calton | Talk 00:55, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: Dirty Subsidy seems to be a part of a Wiki-Ed project (Wiki Ed/Memorial University/Introduction to International Politics (Winter) -- but the original article (Dirty subsidy -- note capitalization) is specifically listed on project page, too. Which makes me think that we may have an unintended fork of the original article, not plagiarism. --Calton | Talk 01:31, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect or merge to dirty subsidy. Septrillion (talk) 04:54, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't see how that solves the original research problem, so I've started Articles for deletion/Dirty subsidy Creating neologisms isn't our role. Doug Weller  talk 10:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * delete as fork of article which needs to be deleted anyway. Mangoe (talk) 16:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: I was hoping this was going to be the name of a soundcloud rapper, but alas it is not. All I can say is that Google Scholar has no direct hits for "dirty subsidy", so it seems like this concept probably does not normally go by this title.  I would suggest "lil skeezy subzeeD" as a a better title if we wish to greatly increase confusion with soundcloud rappers.   Otherwise, perhaps a review of Pigovian tax would help us head in the right direction.--Milowent • hasspoken  20:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - neoligism/or. I'm !voting the same at the other article. Smmurphy(Talk) 14:20, 23 April 2018 (UTC)


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