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1. Just like para-fascists, this category isn't well defined. A lot of articles are being grouped into this category. Rational Dude (talk) 21:46, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

   Please format this properly. Andrew5 mobile (talk) 22:14, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

   It's my first time using this, so I didn't know how to format it. Rational Dude (talk) 23:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

   Didn't knew you were back, Andrew5. Arcadium Trancefer (talk) 16:36, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

2. ”Fascism that […] lacks certain elements of fascism” is not a useful or even meaningful category. 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒 ^talk 20:46, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
3. Dumb category that ends up being applied to any right-wing person an editor doesn’t like. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 18:47, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
4. Let's recap this. It's a category with only 23 entries [and one is very iffy] which is based off 211 words in the main 'Fascism' page which is a term one person coined near 20 years back which relies on two refs for it's existence and has generated very little traction with the wider public since [if my quick Google search is anything to go by]. Nuke the thing and let's move on with our lives. KarmaPolice (talk) 23:08, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
5. What Serene and Duce said above. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 00:46, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
6. We already have "alt-right" and "alt-lite" as categories. Carthage (talk) 02:29, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Goat

• @Rational Dude The purpose of an AFD is to get community consensus before doing any deleting. Not only did you completely fuck up the AfD (even though there are clear instructions on how to do this) you mass deleted every article in this category and blanked the page before any votes were tallied! This behavior is completely unacceptable. You have been warned about this kind of shit before. Please cease immediately unless you'd like to get hauled into the moderator board and/or coop and possibly stripped of your ability to contribute here. I'm getting very tired of you running amok in complete and total disregard of the Community Standards. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 00:11, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
• I think this is pointing at something legitimate, but para-fascism is the wrong category name for this. -- Techpriest (talk) 12:00, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

  I agree. The category's description says it includes ideologies that demonstrate "extreme right-wing populism but lack[s] certain elements of fascism", but a lot of these seem more like general extremist right-wing movements that may or may not have populist elements. Perhaps "Right-wing extremism" would be a better name? DietMondrian (talk) 16:20, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

  The discussion on the AFD for Category:Para-fascists also had the suggestion of neo-fascism as a more established related term. However, that seems closer to being an academically proper term for much which is simply categorized as fascism on RW. --ApooftGnegiol (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2023 (UTC)