Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rumor in African American culture


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The result was delete. Dakota 07:07, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Rumor in African American culture

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Mishmash of rumors alleged to be specific to the African American community, without commentary as to their veracity, some of which are directed at specific individuals, companies or recognizable groups. Several are unsourced. No evidence that they are specific to the African-American community. Wikipedia is not the Black Urban Legend home page. Risker 02:23, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete as hard-to-source, and possible attack page. Wikipedia is not a rumor mill. Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps))) 02:31, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * lean towards delete It would be an interesting article, but I do find it disturbing that there is no 'validation' of said rumors.Balloonman 03:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. What Risker said. --FuriousFreddy 03:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless revamped. The "Further reading" shows that this topic has been written about, but this article doesn't really rely on those sources. It's an indiscriminate list of urban legends linked by original research. --Dhartung | Talk 07:58, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete The article contains references to books on African American rumors. Thus, this could be an interesting sociological topic.  But nobody has ever taken the time to turn this article into something useful.  Instead, it has always read like a barely veiled racist screed to the effect that them people believe such crazy things.  I would support an article that cites scholarly work on rumor and folklore specific to the African American culture, but if no one is willing to do the legwork, then delete it.
 * Changed to Weak keep if cleaned up and sourced. Drop the list of rumors and address the actual research on the subject.  The more I think about it, the more interesting this topic might be.  Urban legends specific to particular cultural groups are keen.  Phiwum 00:34, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup Needs to be stripped of all unsourced entries, but this is a notable phenomenon.  having some noncompliant content is not grounds for deletion of the entire article, only of the bad content.  There's some good stuff here, so this should be taken down to that, even if it means just stubbing it.  deletion is unnecessary. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 00:55, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Provided it is throughly cleaned up.  Adrian   M. H.  20:54, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I see nothing particular to African American culture, unless you call black newspapers somehow different from other local interest, or ethnic or religious newspapers. Rumor is a human phenomenon. --Bejnar 06:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Not worth cleaning up, IMO. Elrith 00:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. An example of original research that will never be anything but, no matter how well sourced.   Thinly veiled race-baiting and POV pushing.Dragomiloff 01:09, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above.--Sefringle 06:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.