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Fróði Debes | Result: Deleted[edit]

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Delete[edit]

  1. Article is only 1 paragraph and some block quotes. Does not appear to be remotely noticeable. 185.112.82.146 (talk) 11:39, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  2. Per nominator. Kadashova (talk) 12:12, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  3. It's probably trolling, but I don't really find much notably pseudoscientific / racialist / hereditarianism about this guy, other than the one (honestly rather bad) linked article in Intelligence whining about Stephen Jay Gould and "wah! media!" (of which far more notable racialists are involved). BobJohnson (talk) 20:47, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  4. Agreed. Pizza SLICE.gifDuceMoosoliniYour friendly RW dictator moderator 22:30, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  5. He might be an article-worthy. But this is not it. Bongolian (talk) 03:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Keep[edit]

  1. Improve, don't delete. This man is clearly missional, and documenting the racist pseudoscientists who work to give racist pseudoscience some level of pseudolegitimacy is important. Carthage (talk) 11:48, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
I can't find any evidence that Debes has published racism. His papers quoted on article are about prenatal exposure to methylmercury and a Faroe Islands study. Nothing to do with race. From what I can tell this guy got an article because he attended the London Conference on Intelligence but if you look around for sources on internet you finding very little about him. It should be noted the article never actually described Debes as a racist but a "HBD" proponent, although to some (many?) people those things are synonymous or related. 185.77.217.177 (talk) 12:24, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
My problem with "improve don't delete" is that articles kept with this reasoning are almost never improved. Pizza SLICE.gifDuceMoosoliniYour friendly RW dictator moderator 19:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Merge/redirect[edit]

Goat[edit]

  1. Given the timing, this could be an attempt at trolling. I'll still vote delete until that's established. Kadashova (talk) 12:19, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
  2. I'm sorely tempted to vote "keep" just to spite whoever's trying to bombard the AFD with sockpuppets and whining. But I don't know enough about this guy to cast judgment on this article one way or the other. ABigBoxOfSand (talk) 04:47, 3 January 2025 (UTC)