Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Judeophobia

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was Redirect to Antisemitism. The edit history is retained, so editors can merge useful content into that article. No argument has been made that this describes a different concept than antisemitism, just an alternative, and less common, term. ~ trialsanderrors 17:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Judeophobia

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Neologism, simply a definition, wikipedia is not a dictionary .V. 20:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

  • This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 20:13, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to antisemitism and redirect if a source can be produced supporting its origin. Could be of some historical interest, but it doesn't seem the term ever caught on, and I doubt there's much potential for expansion. Shimeru 21:47, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to antisemitism per Shimeru. --DixiePixie 22:45, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep in mind [1] (" To support the use of (or an article about) a particular term we must cite reliable secondary sources such as books and papers about the term — not books and papers that use the term.") 192.132.64.2 23:43, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • But there will be no article about the term. The article will be about antisemitism. The merge need only be a sentence or two in the 'history' section of that article detailing Pinsker's alternate term as a point of interest. The primary source is suffient to verify its existence, and secondary sources are not needed unless further claims regarding it are made. Shimeru 00:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep in mind as well that the quotation also says "to support the use of... a particular term." That includes even if it is merged. The intent behind the neologism article is to prevent obscure words from being put into Wikipedia if they are not indeed widely used. Based on the Wikipedia neologism policy, it seems to me that this has no place as an article or merged into another article. .V. 06:13, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge to antisemitism `'mikkanarxi 05:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't see what the problem is. I feel that people are uncomfortable with antisemitism and want this article deleted. I looked at the page for antisemitism and found that the word "Judeophobia" appeared six times, including a book published by Harvard University and a link to the Zionism and Israel Information Center. The book is subtitled, "Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Ancient World." So the word is not a neologism. But if it were, that is in itself not grounds for deletion. Otherwise nothing new would occur in Wikipedia. The page for antisemitism also contains a section defining the word, so Wikipedia serves as a dictionary as well.

I was glad to have run across this page Having its own page with the banner headline helps make it more prominent. It gets people thinking about the matter.

This article can be designated a stub. But I'm afraid that it will be deleted because people are uncomfortable with the subject.

I was very glad to find this page, as I'm writing a paper that involves this topic, and I found that this term worked perfectly in this context. It might make sense to move it to Wiktionary, but the page should definetely be kept up in some form. --renaissanceboy 23:49, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep - 1) a term that survived for 120+ years is not a neologism. 2) Antisemitism is already overloaded and I think Pinsker's quotation is important to understand his reasoning for the term he offered. Therefore if the decision is to merge, let's indeed merge and retain the quote. ←Humus sapiens ну? 00:42, 28 November 2006 (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.