Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Progressive rationalism

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 12:27, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Progressive rationalism

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Article lacks references and is not clearly about a particular thing. A Google Scholar search for the exact phrase has under 300 hits; the few I looked at did not seem to refer to a concept the author expected the reader to be aware of. The article contains unencyclopediac content such as "Notable individuals who have inspired progressive rationalism are Sam Harris for advocating reason, Julian Assange for exposing corruption, and George Carlin for his social criticism. The countries in which the ideals of progressive rationalism have been realized to the greatest extent are the Scandinavian states of Norway and Sweden with their high rates of political trust, secularism, and quality of life." The talk page documents the confusion other editors have about what the article is supposed to be about, but somehow the article has avoided an AfD for ten years. — Charles Stewart (talk) 08:15, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Wow, this sucks. It's a fusion of a bunch of disparate ideas with a smattering of buzzwords and dead giveaways of trying to look perfect (e.g. the Anglospherian obsession with Scandinavia being some kind of utopia). I like the paraphrased-to-the-point-of-losing-poetic-value Philip K. Dick quote in support of a position diametrically opposed to the context he said it in. How did this make it ten years? Vaticidalprophet 10:28, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 11:07, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: How did this slip through for almost a decade? Completely unsourced, doesn't meet the GNG. Seemplez ^{{{ping}} me} 12:25, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, unreferenced, fails WP:NOTESSAY, clearly not notable. Devonian Wombat (talk) 08:44, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.