Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Westophobia
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The result was delete. Black Kite (talk) 21:28, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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No reliable sources to establish notability of this Neologism/Snowclone. Ahecht (TALK
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- Delete. Non-notable neologism that incidentally fails WP:NPOV with regards to the issues said neologism refers to. --Richard Yin (talk) 14:21, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
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- Delete. As the article notes, it is a neologism. There is no evidence that it has been adopted beyond Professor Al Mansouri's work. Cnilep (talk) 00:33, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
- Delete as non-notabe neologism and original reasearch.--Ddcm8991 (talk) 19:39, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
- Keep. Have any of you guys done a Google search? There are a few hits right off: [http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/The-Region-Combat-Westophobia], [http://www.kashmirtimes.com/newsdet.aspx?q=36470], [http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/25/opinion/25iht-edbeed_0.html], [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZGYjBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA76&ots=Ws7QnOfUMt&dq=westophobia%20-wikipedia&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q=westophobia%20-wikipedia&f=false this book], [http://books.google.com/books?id=fCNgIJth7rkC&lpg=PP200&ots=Pz_g6NHtb2&dq=westophobia%20-wikipedia&pg=PP348#v=onepage&q=westophobia%20-wikipedia&f=false a few mentions in this book], [http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/books-article/new-book-on-islam-and-christianity-launched-in-melbourne an article about an essay in a book], etc. I'm not saying the current article is worth saving, but the topic seems notable. If we keep it, we can stub it and add the sources. I don't see any English-language sources that indicate who coined the phrase, but it seems to go back to at least the early 1990s based on the New York Times article. Of course, it's a fairly easy word to coin, so I wouldn't be surprised if we find earlier uses. I'm not terribly interested in investigating this further, however. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 06:03, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
:*Comment I was aware of the Jerusalem Post article (and discussed it on the article's talk page), but it uses the term exclusively in quotes, indicating that it is wordplay or a snowclone, not an accepted term. Similarly, the Kashmir times introduces the term in quotes, indicating that this it is not a term that the reader is expected to know. The first two books are by non-notable authors, and the second one uses the term in quotes. The article about the third book reads like a press release, and the book itself seems pretty non-notable given its complete lack of reviews. --Ahecht (TALK
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