Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Countable fallacy

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The result was delete. Sandstein 11:05, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Countable fallacy

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No sources, search for the term came up dry. It could be that the concept is known under another name, but as is, it looks like a WP:MADEUP WP:NEOLOGISM. Paradoctor (talk) 19:28, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is a truism that I'm sure has an article in Wikipedia under some other name, but I'm equally sure that this is not a name by which it is known in reliable sources so a redirect is inappropriate. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 19:42, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Unable to find anything relevant going by the same title. MordeKyle (talk) 20:29, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
(reluctant) Delete - I tried. I really did. I was so sure that someone, somewhere out there, had used this term to describe this concept. I just can't find it. This article makes sense, it describes a thing that needs a term... and yet, it doesn't seem to be a term that is in use. As I cannot find any mention of the term, despite giving it a good solid try, I have to !vote delete. Sorry. Fieari (talk) 02:51, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - yeah, this idea exists, but I don't know a more common name for it either. Law of triviality (where you can't cope with very big problems and just focus on more trivial topics at a personal scale) is very similar. I remember it from Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise, where he notes that in baseball (hope I'm using the right terms) ranking batsmen is easy but defending players much harder. But he certainly didn't call it this. Blythwood (talk) 05:30, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect as cheap to McNamara fallacy (aka quantitative fallacy). ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 02:59, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So that's why I couldn't find it in the list, it was missing. Thanks, that really scratched an itch. :D

A redirect would constitute WP:promotion of a neologism, though, and a user-invented one at that. See WP:RFD#DELETE #8. There are simply no sources that use the term. Paradoctor (talk) 10:17, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

How about with Template:R from incorrect name added to aid searching, since neither "McNamara" nor "quantitative" are obvious terms, and "countable+fallacy" is a reasonable search term? ^~Hydronium^~Hydroxide^~(Talk)~ 11:03, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Unlikely search term. Paradoctor (talk) 12:16, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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