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Keep I see no synth here and covid disinformation in the US has been a major story in national and international news outlets. It's notable.
CUPIDICAE💕21:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
And it still doesn't change my vote that it's a notable topic because the US was responsible for significant amounts of covid misinformation and is covered by numerous rs.
CUPIDICAE💕21:05, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
It's almost as if you didn't bother to read any of the sources. “The biggest surprise was that the president of the United States was the single largest driver of misinformation around Covid,” said Sarah Evanega, the director of the Cornell Alliance for Science and the study’s lead author. “That’s concerning in that there are real-world dire health implications.” and Misinformation around the pandemic is “one of the major reasons” the United States is not doing as well as other countries in fighting the pandemic, said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein from
The New York Times[1]CUPIDICAE💕21:22, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
In the United States, misinformation spread by elements of the media, by public leaders and by individuals with large social media platforms has contributed to a disproportionately large share of COVID-19 burden:Scientific American[2]CUPIDICAE💕21:25, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
WP:AGF. I read both the sources you posted. They say nothing about attributing misinformation to a country as a political, governmental, or monolithic social unit.
jps (
talk)
21:31, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure which rock you've been under for the past five years or so, but the entire United States experienced a systemwide glitch called Trump, which unfortunately makes this article a keep.
ScrupulousScribe (
talk)
22:09, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Blink*. In this very thread I point out that attribution of misinformation to Donald Trump is sourced. Is there a source that indicates that Donald Trump = US while he was president?
jps (
talk)
00:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
ජපස, The content and the page title should be discussed on the talk page. Not on the AfD page. I exhort you to withdraw your nomination and take the discussion to the talk page.
Walrus Ji (
talk)
13:05, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
If an article is a
WP:POVFORK as this one seems to be (it was not spun-out properly from the other article as it includes a lot of content that is manifestly not recounting statements by the US government, for example), then AfD is appropriate.
jps (
talk)
13:24, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Merge back to
Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm sure this article was created in good faith, but it does not read like a neutral, encyclopedic summary of a topic. It reads like a bunch of criticism of the Trump administration, with a small amount of criticism of other levels of US government mixed in. In practice it's effectively a POVFORK of
Trump administration communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, in that it's devoted solely to negative information about the US government's COVID-19 communication.
Keep This passes
WP:GNG, there is plenty to say about United States misinformation specifically, and unfortunately I think there is a lot to say about misinformation in specific other countries. The misinformation is just getting started as the United States has barely begun vaccination.
Blue Rasberry (talk)23:37, 29 January 2021 (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
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Keep I see no synth here and covid disinformation in the US has been a major story in national and international news outlets. It's notable.
CUPIDICAE💕21:00, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
And it still doesn't change my vote that it's a notable topic because the US was responsible for significant amounts of covid misinformation and is covered by numerous rs.
CUPIDICAE💕21:05, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
It's almost as if you didn't bother to read any of the sources. “The biggest surprise was that the president of the United States was the single largest driver of misinformation around Covid,” said Sarah Evanega, the director of the Cornell Alliance for Science and the study’s lead author. “That’s concerning in that there are real-world dire health implications.” and Misinformation around the pandemic is “one of the major reasons” the United States is not doing as well as other countries in fighting the pandemic, said Dr. Joshua Sharfstein from
The New York Times[1]CUPIDICAE💕21:22, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
In the United States, misinformation spread by elements of the media, by public leaders and by individuals with large social media platforms has contributed to a disproportionately large share of COVID-19 burden:Scientific American[2]CUPIDICAE💕21:25, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
WP:AGF. I read both the sources you posted. They say nothing about attributing misinformation to a country as a political, governmental, or monolithic social unit.
jps (
talk)
21:31, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm not sure which rock you've been under for the past five years or so, but the entire United States experienced a systemwide glitch called Trump, which unfortunately makes this article a keep.
ScrupulousScribe (
talk)
22:09, 24 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Blink*. In this very thread I point out that attribution of misinformation to Donald Trump is sourced. Is there a source that indicates that Donald Trump = US while he was president?
jps (
talk)
00:30, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
ජපස, The content and the page title should be discussed on the talk page. Not on the AfD page. I exhort you to withdraw your nomination and take the discussion to the talk page.
Walrus Ji (
talk)
13:05, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
If an article is a
WP:POVFORK as this one seems to be (it was not spun-out properly from the other article as it includes a lot of content that is manifestly not recounting statements by the US government, for example), then AfD is appropriate.
jps (
talk)
13:24, 25 January 2021 (UTC)reply
Merge back to
Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm sure this article was created in good faith, but it does not read like a neutral, encyclopedic summary of a topic. It reads like a bunch of criticism of the Trump administration, with a small amount of criticism of other levels of US government mixed in. In practice it's effectively a POVFORK of
Trump administration communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, in that it's devoted solely to negative information about the US government's COVID-19 communication.
Keep This passes
WP:GNG, there is plenty to say about United States misinformation specifically, and unfortunately I think there is a lot to say about misinformation in specific other countries. The misinformation is just getting started as the United States has barely begun vaccination.
Blue Rasberry (talk)23:37, 29 January 2021 (UTC)reply
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