Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black flight

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. No prejudice towards merging. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:58, 14 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Black flight[edit]

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Non-notable neologism, seemingly coined to facilitate original research and synthesis boiling down to a tu quoque argument; also used to house arguments which pretend that white flight was done for benign reasons and did not have a racist component. Orange Mike | Talk 23:09, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep with a very strong recommendation of a rewrite. Although I agree with Orangemike's analysis of this article, the term is attested back to at least 1975, according to Google News, and the term seems to have notability independent of the POV/OR/NEO use in this article. These systemic issues will require this article to be rewritten from scratch, but I think a credible article could be written on this topic. Incubation is also acceptable, as it might result in more attention than slapping half a dozen cleanup templates on a mainspace article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:01, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:10, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:10, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 01:58, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is not a neologism as there are no new words here (unlike the recent FA throffer). The topic is the subject of several books and so is notable. Warden (talk) 07:20, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - "White Flight" is a bit of journalistic doggerel to describe the same phenomenon here — the outmigration of jobs and middle- to upper-income families from American urban centers. I suspect that the correct answer here is a retitling of White Flight and a merge of Black Flight, with redirects left from each of those neologisms. Now, what's the "correct" title for this socioeconomic phenomenon? That I don't know. I suggest that if this puzzle can't be solved, leaving this "Black Flight" information intact is a far preferable solution than deletion. But I think that's a second, lesser option to solving the puzzle. Is there a sociologist in the house? Carrite (talk) 15:26, 25 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 09:19, 6 October 2013 (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.