Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rankism (2nd nomination)

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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 keep. WjBscribe 23:21, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rankism (2nd nomination)

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First nomination

Non-notable neologism seemingly used only by its crank-ish creator, originally flunked an AfD in 2005 and was recreated; the article is filled with spamcruft two years later, with no indication of notability. Should be merged with Robert W. Fuller to the extent there's anything salvageable in here. THF 23:38, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Merge and redirect. I think it's mildly notable: 32,100 Google hits is way above the kind of stuff that's commonly debated here (and 16 on Google Books and 27 on Google Scholar). But the fact that it hasn't been edited for a year suggests it's not that notable. 00:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fuhghettaboutit 00:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep 32 scholarly articles discussing this concept in large part under this term makes for notability, they are not all written by the creator, or by Fuller--even book highly critical reviews of Fuller use the term [1] and I think the articles is adequately sourced. DGG 02:37, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: per DGG. Seems important and has many more google hits than it did 2 years ago last time it went through AfD. --Valley2city₪‽ 05:43, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Solidly sourced. --Infrangible 01:54, 26 April 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.