Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jewish mother stereotype


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The result was   keep. AfD apparently withdrawn by nominator DGG (talk) 20:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Jewish mother stereotype
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Gaaah. Original research, virtually all uncited and much of it is not about a stereotype but just people with Jewish mothers. I'm sure the stereotype may exist, and that can be noted in an article on stereotypes or on Jewish parenthood, but I am equally sure that this isn't an article and that no article could be written without violating WP:OR and WP:SYN.

(This survived a deletion attempt in 2005, which can be found on talk, but I think we've matured since then, and 4 years of existence shows there's little cause for thinking this will improve with age.) Scott Mac (Doc) 17:55, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I was hoping to buy food today. But now I have to rescue this, with the ample sources that exist covering this stereotype, including discussion of its roots in Jewish culture and why it is a particularly Jewish stereotype (ISBN 9780878559534, chapter 1).  I have to go hungry for you!  Look how you make your poor Uncle G suffer!  You never call.  You never write.  You never visit.  You don't just zap the unsourced "popular media" and "characteristics" sections and start again with a stub and the several sources already cited in the article.  The mighty Doc has no respect for the lowly article subjects, that multiple independent reliable source writers have worked their fingers to the bone to document in depth.  And you haven't been eating properly, either, have you?  Oy! Uncle G (talk) 18:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Meh, if you are genuinely going to work on this, I've no objections to you closing this afd and we can consider whether the finished product is encyclopedic at a later date. I've enough respect for your work to know you don't tend to rescue total hopeless cases. I've messaged WP.Judaism also, it would be interesting to get their take. I'm open to being convinced. Here, have a cookie.--Scott Mac (Doc) 19:10, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


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