Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Expansionist nationalism


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The result was keep. Sam Walton (talk) 00:13, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Expansionist nationalism

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Not an actual form of nationalism in more formal academic studies of nationalism, instead being a term that sometimes appears in basic textbooks to refer to militant nationalists. In order to verify my view of the lack of significance I checked a large social science academic journal database and yielded no results in the formal literature on nationalism; indeed, expansionist nationalism is merely a way of referring to irredentism. A search of google finds many sources, all of which are copies of the original wikipedia page RememberToForget (talk) 04:41, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep The term seems to be used in multiple published sources according to Google Books. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 05:40, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Clarification The nominatior or User:RememberToForget has changed the reason for deletion after I had preferred keeping the article most likely to contradict my keep reason. A simple reply of argument would have been better rather than violate WP:REDACT. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 06:12, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge with Irredentism, per nom: expansionist nationalism is merely a way of referring to irredentism. The phrase is sometimes used by commentators, mostly those who are agin it; but we want one good article on the topic, not two flawed ones Noyster (talk),  10:41, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 23:50, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. North America1000 14:31, 10 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep - the premises of the nominator are false. A simple search at Google Books (see 1600 results) is a clear indication that this is not an unknown topic. These are also most definitely not copies of the Wikipedia page. With regards to definition, the term Irredentism refers to the notion of re-acquiring lost territories. On the other hand, "expansionist nationalism" refers to a territorial expansion driven by notions of national superiority (or destiny).-- MarshalN20 T al k 16:58, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep - per MarshalN20 argument. Pahlevun (talk) 16:30, 15 December 2016 (UTC)


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