Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethnic nepotism


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The result was delete. Tone 09:27, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Ethnic nepotism

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This term was pulled out of obscurity by marginalized evolutionary psychologists and fringe academics as an apologia for racism. We don't need this kind of WP:POVFORK/WP:COATRACK. Ethnocentrism describes the mainstream explanation without resorting to this kind of pseudoscholarship which is itself discussed on Race and intelligence and related articles that can properly contextualize this sort of argumentation. jps (talk) 16:03, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. jps (talk) 16:03, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect. This appears to be a rather poor article but the term gets some hits in Google Scholar so it is a plausible search term. If this is just an existing topic, or an element of an existing topic, that we already cover better under a different name then redirect to that. --DanielRigal (talk) 16:36, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Obscure concept advanced by fringe authors Rushton, Salter and Vanhanen. Searches mostly return primary sources; this POV hasn't received mainstream attention to justify an article. –dlthewave ☎ 17:33, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect as a real subject but with a variant name. GPinkerton (talk) 23:57, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:59, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Ethnocentrism The term is a search term that is used and the article traffic demonstrates that users will look for this. The actual content of the article is thin and demonstrates that the concept is already adequately covered in a better way by the redirect target. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 17:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment The Google Books results indicate that the term was coined by Pierre van den Berghe in the Elsevier-published The Ethnic Phenomenon. (1981). Van den Berghe was a recipient of the American Sociological Association Spivak Award. I am unable to find any pointers that he was "FRINGE". JP Rushton and Tatu Vanhanen are fringe in race and intelligence, though Vanhanen wasn't fringe in political science (he started to write about R&I after he retired, otherwise his concepts such as "Index of Democratization" are well-recognized and published within the field). Vanhanen's 1991 and 1999 books about "ethnic nepotism" were published by Sterling and Emerald respectively. Google Scholar gets 1,130 hits. The top result, Vanhanen's Journal of Peace Research article, has 453 citations elsewhere. If this doesn't warrant an own article (I'm not sure), then the very least it should be a redirect and warrant a paragraph based on van den Berghe and possibly Vanhanen there. --Pudeo (talk) 22:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Ethnocracy Probably the most sensible choice. The term doesn't seem so notable to be worth an article on it as a neologism, nor does it seem sufficiently separate. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.4% of all FPs 18:47, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to... something? Probably ethnocracy, as the closest match. Guy (help! - typo?) 16:46, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect with a possible smerge, per above and WP:FORK. Bearian (talk) 22:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable as a term, and a redirect gives this WP:FRINGE concept a platform. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 05:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Not a notable term, no redirect necessary. Redirect to Racism if anywhere. PainProf (talk) 03:23, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indeed, main concept is ethnocentrism. Everything else seem to be fringe and insufficiently notable. The nepotism does exist, but as a social phenomenon, not anything genetically predetermined.  My very best wishes (talk) 04:23, 22 August 2020 (UTC)


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