Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global warming alarmist

Global warming alarmist was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to merge and redirect the article.

The title of this stub is POV - only opponents of global warming ever use this term to refer to supporters - and does nothing to further the neutral discussion of the global warming topic. There are many other pages devoted to the topic of global warming and this page also seems redundant. Suggest Delete or redirect to Global warming controversy.
 * Delete, inherently POV. Also check out all the nicely-named redirects to this article...I guess they should all go, too -- Ferkelparade &pi; 11:30, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. POV stub. If appropriate, quote can be added to a section at global warming about those who don't agree with global warming theories. zoney &#09827; talk 12:15, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. "Global warming alarmism" is becoming the main term used for the advocates of the catastrophic theories about global warming. Google returns thousands of hits, yet many people do not know what it means.--Lumidek 12:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't think the problem is that the term itself is not used (it is used by many opponents of climate change to describe advocates) it is that the Wikipedia is not a dictionary and the a description of the term more properly belongs in the global warming controversy page. --Axon 12:43, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * What's the exact search that returns "thousands" of hits? I only got 330 for exact phrase "global warming alarmism" and only 98 for Global warming alarmist. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 20:16, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indeed POV. But not an intersting POV. One could create any article with "whatever" alarmist ( dog alarmist, pasta alarmist, moon alarmist... )--Gtabary 14:47, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Obviously you don't know what you're talking about. This is a standard term for those people, and there exists no other frequently used term. You can make a google search for "whatever alarmist" vs. "global warming alarmist" if you want to understand why I don't think that your vote has any value. --Lumidek 14:50, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge before deleting with the global warming controversy page. --user:Ed Poor (deep or sour) 14:54, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge - I agree with Ed (for once); if this term is used. Charles Matthews 16:51, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: I don't see any merge, and I absolutely don't see any keep. It is sufficient already to say that some people in thrall of oil companies oppose any weaning from its teat.  We don't need to catalog their taunts. Geogre 16:58, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Alarmism. Gdr 17:27, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
 * Delete simply a POV repositry -- William M. Connolley 17:51, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC).
 * Delete. Inherently POV. That doesn't mean that no-one uses the terms; it just means that it doesn't belong in an article title. There's nothing wrong with attributing the "alarmist" label to their opponents in global warming controversy if it's important to document that the term exists. No redirect, because no-one is going to swing by here looking for global warming alarmist but not global warming. &mdash; mendel &#9742; 18:46, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Inherently POV. The general subject area is well covered in Global warming skepticism and Global warming controversy, (or if not these articles can be improved). The exact phrase gets only 87 hits in Google Groups, which does not meet my criterion for a term that is in such widespread use that it needs to be documented. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 20:14, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * delete junk Mozzerati 22:45, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
 * Delete this crap and all its associated redirects. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 02:02, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to global warming controversy or delete.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 03:50, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect. -Sean Curtin 04:41, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete (no redirect). I can find no evidence that this phrase is in significant active use.  For example, Google search on "global warming alarmist" returns only 96 hits, many of which were duplicates. If this were in fact the "standard term" for a current topic, it should show much more evidence.  Rossami (talk) 05:36, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Global warming controversy - Skysmith 09:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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