Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Triumphalism


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  17:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Triumphalism

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The article as it stands appears to be a hybrid Wikitionary/Wikiquote page. Its lead admits it is "not an articulated doctrine" and the content here is quite questionable, leaving just the definition of the word. But Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and definitions are not notable for encyclopaedic articles. GPinkerton (talk) 05:33, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. GPinkerton (talk) 05:33, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment There is an analysis section beyond just the definition, but there is not much there. If it could be expanded then there would be something worthwhile here.★Trekker (talk) 21:19, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   10:24, 8 June 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * delete I cannot find anything that isn't either a dictionary definition (and ours is at variance to what the dictionaries say) or discussion of a specific example— usually American post-Cold-War politics. Mangoe (talk) 13:23, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Neutral for now - the current sources are two political essays that use the concept to make their point, and a bunch of quotations that use the word. That does at least show that it is a somewhat relevant concept. Still though, it does seem like no one is writing about triumphalism itself as an actual phenomenon, and instead it's only people using the concept to make a point about something else, particularly religion. I also see substantial overlap with In-group favoritism. PJvanMill (talk) 14:31, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - The term is not a neologism and is backed by two sources (the first two references) that are just about OK. The article isn't great as it stands: the 'analysis' section is not all that substantial and the quotes section is kind of arbitrary. &mdash; Charles Stewart (talk) 08:05, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment the best source I can find is this, but I don't think that's enough to keep on its own. Could be rewritten to be about "Cold War triumphalism", a (rejected) historiographical school Otherwise I don't think this can be much expanded beyond DICTDEF + OR + random quotes. buidhe 18:32, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Captain Galaxy (talk) 22:39, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. DICT DEF at best, and this article is not the best, shot through with unsupported generalizations and OR.  --Lockley (talk) 20:03, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete after all, mainly because the sources are not really about the subject. PJvanMill (talk) 20:14, 22 June 2020 (UTC)


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