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I really can't understand why this article has been nominated for deletion- its well written + sourced, maintains NPOV, and it is in relation to a very notable issue- i live in australia, and "bushism" is a very well known and used term. All i can think of, is maybe the person nominating this article
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This is wikipedia's "coatrack" definition "A coatrack article is a
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You could be right. This article is more blatant about its bias, so coatrack might not technically apply. The same concerns that apply to a coatrack article are there though -- the article promotes the bias that Bush is a moron and invites a collection of examples to show that.
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So while i guess a case could be made for having less quotes, i don't believe its reasonable to say that these quotes are only 'tangentially related' to the articles subject- the subject is bushism's, and these are examples of bushism's.
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subject of more than one published book, notable enough. Oh, and I know consensus can change and all that, but the last AFD was 15-to-1 to keep, so it's pretty clear the community has made their decision on this already.
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How is that? Knowledge (XXG) should be consistent when dealing with U.S. presidents. Also, regardless of whether it is a well-known figure, the information is used simply to defame the subject, thus a BLP violation.
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