Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Molbo story

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the page entitled Molbo, which was moved to Molbo story before the debate was finished.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to keep the article.

Article on a stereotype about people from a certain part of Denmark. Wikipedia should not be perpetuating this sort of "knowledge." --Smack 19:16, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Political correctness is NOT my cup of tea. Still, this stinks.  I've listed it for speedy deletion as well. - Lucky 6.9 19:23, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
 * No vote. It's bad as it is, but it could become better. The concept as such is certainly encyclopedic, if treated in a NPOV way. Of course, in this case there's the risk that the best thing it could become is a good stub. -- Jao 19:28, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Encyclopedias "perpetuate" all knowledge. It is also at the Dansk 'pedia, so I think it is not nonsense. Mikkalai 03:23, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with Mikkalai. Everyking 05:06, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: I guess if we've got nigger we could keep this too, but it really stinks IMO. I disagree that this is knowledge. Ethnological data perhaps, but not knowledge. No vote at this stage. Andrewa 05:58, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * You might be willing to fix the Knowledge article :-).Mikkalai 15:38, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: It looks OK to me, as does the information article. Still no vote, difficult IMO. The article is certainly improved, the move is good and it now contains some encyclopedic material. Andrewa 21:03, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I wrote this because I stumbled upon molbo in the Danish wikipedia. A molbo is a word I think most people who speak either Norwegian or Danish know because at least in Norway there is lots of molbostories about the people in molboland which is often thought of as a fictional country with only stupid people, there is even several children's books of molbostories. Before I saw this on the Danish wikipedia I had no idea that it was actually originally refering to someone from the Danish area Mols, so I thought this was an interesting fact. This is not used as a derogatory term about people from Mols, if used as a derogatory term about someone it is usually about politicians who make stupid decisions. Fuelbottle | Talk 08:09, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I have now added some external links with some more info. Fuelbottle | Talk 11:23, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article now appears to be encyclopedic at the very least, though it's written in rather poor English and is a prime candidate for Cleanup.  I've just moved it to Molbo story, because it seems to describe a type of story rather than a type of person.  Also, a question for the author.  Would it be possible to somehow shorten the very long book title (Beretning om de ...)?  --Smack 18:09, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
 * If we delete the Molbos, we'll need to delete nigger, chink, wetback, all of them. Keep, but move to Cleanup. DO'Neil 10:33, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

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