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The result was delete. (X! · talk)  · @135  ·  02:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reductio ad Communum[edit]

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This terms appears to be a neologism on the pattern of Reductio ad Hitlerum, but with no evidence whatsoever of any actual external usage. Moreover, the text of the article is just copy-and-pasted from the RaH article, with just the term itself changed (and removal of the pedigree of the actually used term; i.e. "coined by Leo Strauss". LotLE×talk 16:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete unverifiable/non-notable neologism. snigbrook (talk) 17:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete unless someone can add evidence of actual usage to the article. LotLE×talk 18:16, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, without any doubt. In this forum post [1] the author admits that he/she made up the term and wrote the Wikipedia article to go with it. For further confirmation this post is the only Google hit for "Reductio ad Communum" which is not either a Wikipedia page or a web page quoting Wikipedia. JamesBWatson (talk) 21:15, 4 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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