Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grandstanding


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to Political posturing. Stifle (talk) 15:49, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Grandstanding

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Hard to see how this could ever become anything more than a WP:DICTDEF -- RoySmith (talk) 13:09, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with FormalDude's merge/redirect suggestion. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:01, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  13:58, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge+redirect somewhere else - I split this off of grandstand before expanding it beyond a definition; based on the tags, it seems editors agreed that it did not belong there. If there's a parent concept, I'm open to merging into it, but I'm not sure what that would be. It's already a bit more than a definition, as it's summarizing various types. It's possible this could expand considerably by covering why psychologists think this happens, what the effects good and bad are, and how various forums try to prevent it to get more substantive conversations, or encourage it for other reasons. Political grandstanding does this for that type. -- Beland (talk) 16:50, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Merge with Political posturing: I'm not seeing sources that distinguish it from this topic. –– FormalDude  talk  19:12, 17 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Redirect to grandstanding, which is where to find an actual dictionary definition.
 * As for the notability of the word "grandstanding": looking this word up on Google Scholar or the WP refs engine brings up pages and pages of... well, pages that mention the concept of grandstanding, though I doubt that few of them are actually about the word "grandstanding", raising questions of notability. (Searching for "grandstanding is" in the WP refs engine seems to give marginally better results, though still not good enough ones to assuage our notability worries fully. However, checking out the second page of search results brings up an entire book!)
 * Redirecting this to Political posturing or Political grandstanding would unduly emphasize the political aspects of grandstanding; ordinary people can grandstand too. (By the way, redirecting Grandstanding to Political grandstanding would make the former into an exciting double redirect, as the latter itself redirects to Political posturing.)
 * Duckmather (talk) 04:17, 22 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Merge with Political posturing would be the best solution, because posturing and grandstanding contain significant overlap. In fact, they are practically one and the same. TH1980 (talk) 03:11, 24 April 2022 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.