Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Headless fatty


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The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 01:36, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Headless fatty

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Completely non-notable neologism. Article is sourced almost entirely to bloggers, and if you take those away we're left with two journals, Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society and International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, neither of which seem particularly notable (no WP article on them) or well-regarded by the scientific community. The Wordsmith Talk to me 18:19, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Health and fitness-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:20, 6 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete The only people actually using this term are likely crude and in newsrooms without any considerations to the subjects they're covering. This is just a long way to say 'b-roll in news broadcasts regularly records public video of heavy-set people to use in the latest diet fad report'.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 04:26, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps search engine bubbles are to blame here, but when I search for this string I get a list of hits in articles sympathetic to fat people. Indeed, that's all I get in the first screen's worth. -- Hoary (talk) 01:42, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: On the face of it, a mildly interesting neologism. We're told that it's the creation of blue-linked Charlotte Cooper (author) ... and most of the references to the latter article are to material by Charlotte Cooper (author). -- Hoary (talk) 06:06, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 02:43, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Merge with a broader article on fat activism discourse, perhaps Fat Acceptance Movement. It's an interesting and relatively common term, but I don't think it needs a stand-alone article. Clawsyclaw (talk) 08:37, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment Please tell me in what way the FAM would regard this as a term they want associated with them at all. I've never heard it in commonplace conversation and you'd be justifiably thrown out of a room if you used it.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 01:14, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Suggestions. Somewhere in en:WP there may be an article about the recently ballooned use by online news sources/recyclers of uninformative stock photos. (A ten-year-old article in theguardian.com about a crime for which no photo was available will have no photo. A new article on the same will have a stock photo, very likely of "POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS" tape strung up in some place that can't be determined from the photo.) If anyone can think of such an article, then redirect this to it. If not, delete: it's a mildly interesting term from 2007 that currently has some use, but unremarkably so. (Google Ngram Viewer gives no hits for it.) -- Hoary (talk) 01:42, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Non Notable Neologism. Carrite (talk) 19:24, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep/merge There are entire books which cover this material, e.g. Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics; The Politics of Size; Body of Truth and many more. The claims above that the topic is not notable are therefore quite false. Andrew D. (talk) 21:09, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the books and page references, Andrew. However: Obesity Discourse and Fat Politics, "You have [...] reached a page that is unavailable for viewing"; The Politics of Size, yes, the actual term is used, but within a short paragraph that merely mentions the phenomenon; Body of Truth, no preview. Of course there's no requirement that substantive coverage in a book must be available via Google Books; but if you have access to material, then why not improve the article accordingly? As it is, the addition of the AfD template aside, the article hasn't been adjusted in any way since August 2016. -- Hoary (talk) 00:35, 22 April 2017 (UTC)


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