Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Financial Censorship


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The result was   delete. Secret account 01:32, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Financial Censorship

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I'm unable to find usable sources for this, as it appears the term is only loosely used within a niche group of economic thinking and not found in general usage amongst a wider audience. I deprodded it as it might be notable, but not widely used. Unless someone greater than myself can find reliable sources for this, I believe deletion is the next course of action. [Belinrahs|talktome⁄ ididit] 16:55, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete First of all, it's basically just a definition of the term; Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Secondly, a Google search for the term finds it used on blogs and such, but not in the mainstream press. --MelanieN (talk) 17:01, 2 December 2009 (UTC)MelanieN
 * Delete, the creator of the article acknowledges on the talk page that this is a neologism: "I find this phenomenon lacks a succinct name, and I'm doing my best to craft a term that, while novel as a whole, is made up of familiar parts...." Ground Zero | t 17:57, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * So in other words, this is WP:Original research ?? --MelanieN (talk) 00:54, 3 December 2009 (UTC)MelanieN


 * Delete per Ground Zero, it seems that the creator is using this and other posts to try to push an agenda, but I am trying to AGF. Yossiea (talk) 18:12, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Also per Ground Zero. I see the article creator is not aware of WP policies, which regardless, the term is not yet notable enough for WP. Angryapathy (talk) 22:07, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:NEO. Joe Chill (talk) 23:57, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Blatant neologism. - Mgm|(talk) 11:15, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep but with a rewrite by a neutral editor, since POV seems to be in question here. --UgaBullDawgFan08 (talk) 14:59, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per Ground Zero. If the creator's admitting he made the term up and is trying to popularize it, this is a slamdunk to anyone who's ever heard of WP:NEO, WP:OR or WP:SPAM.    RGTraynor  03:30, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and Rename to Financial coercion. Please also note that this is what the article looked like before being stripped down to a 'neologism'. Unomi (talk) 13:55, 8 December 2009 (UTC)


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