Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Twitter controversies


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 06:34, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

List of Twitter controversies

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WP:IINFO. Lists are supposed to contain things which can be compared to each other. I'm not sure how an article which is a list of controversies could ever reach a state, in which the individual items like lawsuits and controversial bots belong on the same list. Not to mention that calling these events controversies may often be controversial in itself, and a potential BLP violation to include someone on this list. w umbolo  ^^^  18:58, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete per nom.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 07:13, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment. "Controversies" is one of those words I've always had a problem with, as it's often used lazily or has POV implications, but it's persisted on Wikipedia maybe for lack of a better term. This list is complementary to Category:Twitter controversies, which is itself a sub-sub...category of a (disturbingly?) well-developed Category:Controversies structure. So whatever the merits of the criticism of this particular list, I don't think the problems are particular to its usage here but rather pervasive. I will somewhat disagree with the nom on one point though; if there's anything that can objectively (and legally) be called a "controversy", it's a lawsuit. But then we equivocate when we lump that in with the (again, often lazy) lay usage of the word. postdlf (talk) 16:01, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —AE  ( talk  •  contributions ) 02:07, 8 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: This article doesn't cite anything which leads me to believe that it is original research (WP:OR). Also who is the editor to decide something completely subjective like what is and isn't a twitter controversy as if it's objective fact. Finally this list has only 20 entries and it's quite hard to believe that there have only been 20 twitter controversies in history, There could have been 20+ twitter controversies in just 2017.Grapefruit17 (talk) 15:04, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete An ill-defined list that equivocates between lawsuits, political scandals and people just being upset (the long tail of the latter being, at this point, pretty much synonymous with Twitter). XOR&#39;easter (talk) 15:47, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and others.Omgwtfbbqsomethingrandom (talk) 21:22, 13 September 2018 (UTC)


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