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Comment: The article used to be a lot longer too. It was severely trimmed, following accusations that the old version surmounted to a hodgepodge trivia collection, much like the "in popular culture" writeups that
flooded AFD a decade ago.
Geschichte (
talk)
20:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep and expand. Clearly there are negative stereotypes directed towards Canadians that could be developed in an article like this.
BD2412T20:50, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
E.g., Faye Hammill, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars (2009), p. 113: "According to stereotype, Canadians are perceived as unassuming and possibly dull".
BD2412T20:59, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep This is not a permastub – the page has existed with substantial content since 2006 and the idea that it's just Brazil is ludicrous. What's happened here is that someone has
blanked most of the content. I have restored this now.
Andrew🐉(
talk)
16:28, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep - I don't see what's changed since the last AFD, other than a lot more good references and versions in other languages. The Arabic version (
ar:معاداة_الكندية) is perhaps better referenced than this one!
Nfitz (
talk)
00:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Articles like this are legitimate only in cases like
Anti-Semitism where there is a substantial body of academic, third-party literature that discusses the phenomenon as such in its entirety (as opposed to simply individual events described as "anti-X'ist"). Otherwise the synthesis of such events constitutes
WP:OR. Legitimate information pertaining to individual historical situations can be integrated elsewhere, for instance in articles on "History of X" or "X-Y relations".
In addition to Allan (2009), already referenced in the article, I found two more possibly usable sources on a google books search:
Brunet, Michel (1969). Anti-Canadianism and Anti-Americanism in the Cultural and Political Tradition of the American and Canadian Peoples: Lecture Given at the University of Delaware ; Contemporary Canada and the Double Challenge of the United States' Continentalism and of the Quebecois' Nationalism.
Morissey, Ronald S. (1968). American Attitudes Toward Canada, 1815-1854. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Note that all three of these seem to focus on the US with regards to "anti-Canadianism". So far I'm not convinced there's a "substantial body" so my preference at present would be to merge notable incidents, such as the Saudi one, into bilateral relations articles, and redirect this title to
foreign relations of Canada. If someone can demonstrate that there are more sources available whose primary topic is "anti-Canadianism" I may be convinced to change my vote to keep. –
filelakeshoe (
t /
c)
🐱08:53, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete/selective merge Almost none of this is actually a cohesive topic of anti-Canadian sentiment, just different content synthesized together. In popular culture: all complete satire of the fact that nobody actually hates Canada so it's funny when people do. Domestic section: silly that this is the longest one, and I don't think it's appropriate to conflate
Quebec nationalism with First Nations criticism with political complaints about policies. Incredibly inappropriate that irrelevant nonsense like "Conservative activists Steven Crowder, David Frum, Jamie Glazov, Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have repeatedly criticized Canada's policies." was restored to the article when deservedly removed.
Anti-Americanism doesn't need to include domestic criticism of our own government or culture. The diplomatic issues are also isolated events that aren't tied together as deep-seated sentiment against the Canadian people.
Reywas92Talk14:12, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting to try and establish consensus on an appropriate redirect/merge target or allow evidence to be presented that article meets
WP:GNG
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Qwaiiplayer (
talk)
13:00, 20 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep per Nfitz. It has only improved since the last AfD.
Ajshul😃
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.
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.
Comment: The article used to be a lot longer too. It was severely trimmed, following accusations that the old version surmounted to a hodgepodge trivia collection, much like the "in popular culture" writeups that
flooded AFD a decade ago.
Geschichte (
talk)
20:38, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep and expand. Clearly there are negative stereotypes directed towards Canadians that could be developed in an article like this.
BD2412T20:50, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
E.g., Faye Hammill, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars (2009), p. 113: "According to stereotype, Canadians are perceived as unassuming and possibly dull".
BD2412T20:59, 9 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep This is not a permastub – the page has existed with substantial content since 2006 and the idea that it's just Brazil is ludicrous. What's happened here is that someone has
blanked most of the content. I have restored this now.
Andrew🐉(
talk)
16:28, 10 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep - I don't see what's changed since the last AFD, other than a lot more good references and versions in other languages. The Arabic version (
ar:معاداة_الكندية) is perhaps better referenced than this one!
Nfitz (
talk)
00:05, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Articles like this are legitimate only in cases like
Anti-Semitism where there is a substantial body of academic, third-party literature that discusses the phenomenon as such in its entirety (as opposed to simply individual events described as "anti-X'ist"). Otherwise the synthesis of such events constitutes
WP:OR. Legitimate information pertaining to individual historical situations can be integrated elsewhere, for instance in articles on "History of X" or "X-Y relations".
In addition to Allan (2009), already referenced in the article, I found two more possibly usable sources on a google books search:
Brunet, Michel (1969). Anti-Canadianism and Anti-Americanism in the Cultural and Political Tradition of the American and Canadian Peoples: Lecture Given at the University of Delaware ; Contemporary Canada and the Double Challenge of the United States' Continentalism and of the Quebecois' Nationalism.
Morissey, Ronald S. (1968). American Attitudes Toward Canada, 1815-1854. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Note that all three of these seem to focus on the US with regards to "anti-Canadianism". So far I'm not convinced there's a "substantial body" so my preference at present would be to merge notable incidents, such as the Saudi one, into bilateral relations articles, and redirect this title to
foreign relations of Canada. If someone can demonstrate that there are more sources available whose primary topic is "anti-Canadianism" I may be convinced to change my vote to keep. –
filelakeshoe (
t /
c)
🐱08:53, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Delete/selective merge Almost none of this is actually a cohesive topic of anti-Canadian sentiment, just different content synthesized together. In popular culture: all complete satire of the fact that nobody actually hates Canada so it's funny when people do. Domestic section: silly that this is the longest one, and I don't think it's appropriate to conflate
Quebec nationalism with First Nations criticism with political complaints about policies. Incredibly inappropriate that irrelevant nonsense like "Conservative activists Steven Crowder, David Frum, Jamie Glazov, Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn have repeatedly criticized Canada's policies." was restored to the article when deservedly removed.
Anti-Americanism doesn't need to include domestic criticism of our own government or culture. The diplomatic issues are also isolated events that aren't tied together as deep-seated sentiment against the Canadian people.
Reywas92Talk14:12, 17 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Relisting to try and establish consensus on an appropriate redirect/merge target or allow evidence to be presented that article meets
WP:GNG
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Qwaiiplayer (
talk)
13:00, 20 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep per Nfitz. It has only improved since the last AfD.
Ajshul😃
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.