Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Neolibertarianism

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 03:40, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

Neolibertarianism
Where to begin? This is 1-sentence description of a term used obscurely as an invective by an obscure set of libertarians who call themselves geolibertarians. The same term is used much more commonly in a different sense, but the subject of the article as it stands hardly merits an encyclopedia article. Furthermore, this text might well be a copyvio from http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tma68/neolib.htm, although I can't find anything on that page that indicates a copyright. - Nat Krause 09:14, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, or merge in to libertarianism if it really deserves mention. Phil s 10:16, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into libertarianism. Ive never heard of this before but if its deemed notable enough then merge unless it can be greatly expanded. -CunningLinguist 22:51, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, Neoconservatism has a page... this can have one too... needs expansion... gren 10:30, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * By that logic, we could never delete any page that begins with Neo- and ends with -ism. - Nat Krause 07:55, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge - self-admitted subset [Pedantic point: what's 'neo' - "new" - about it ?] --Simon Cursitor 07:35, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * What exactly do you want to merge where? This word in this sense is an extremely rare pejorative term. I'm okay with merging to geolibertarianism. - Nat Krause 07:55, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - and merge Neolibertarian with it. The term "neolibertarian" has two meanings, depending on who is using it. The so called paleolibertarians use it to mean libertarians, who aren't followers of Murray N. Rothbard. The so called geolibertarians use it to mean libertarians, who aren't followers of Henry George. It is, as said, a pejorative term, and that should be explained in the article, in both uses of the word. I have never met anybody, who calls him/herself a "neolibertarian". As I havent met anybody who calls him/herself a "neoliberal", either, but yet there is a long article about Neoliberalism. That, too, is a pejorative term, constructed by socialists to lump together things they opposed, no matter if those things didn't have anything else in common than the fact, that they were opposed by socialists. 213.243.154.41  13:07, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't realize there was a neolibertarian article. The two articles, as anon notes, are using completely different senses of the word, and the one used in neolibertarian is much more common in my experience. Incidentally, I don't think it's true that "neolibertarian" is never self-applied: check out http://www.neolibertarian.net . - Nat Krause 13:58, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, at least the group which self-applies the term is much smaller than the group of which it is applied by others. An article about "neolibertarianism" should however explain both uses of the word. anon 16:54, 31 May 2005(UTC)
 * Keep, I have seen this term used numerous times. Afcassidy


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