Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common misconceptions (3rd nomination)
this reminds me of lists of "frequently asked questions" with questions that are unlikely to have been frequently asked. Now that is not really a big deal for a random FAQ on a random website, or even in our project/talk pages. But in article space, we are supposed to have higher standards.... Even if the facts themselves are interesting, we should use appropriate standards for labelling their opposites  as "common misconceptions". For an illustration of why it is important, consider the fourth item in the list about Columbus - a common misconception about a common misconception! So, it is not always easy to tell whether something is a common misconception, and a reliable source for a fact is not necessarily reliable on the judgement that many people believe the opposite. So, what are appropriate standards? Well, I skimmed through the discussion above about these criteria - it is pointed out the term is nebulous and difficult to substantiate, but I would really like to make the point that it is not even our place to define such a term for our readers. We should use accepted criteria, and in this case, there are none - this is not a field of study. And I disagree with the analogy made a few comments above - "notability", "verifiability", "original research" and so on are our ''internal'' terms. We use our definitions internally, and they affect our articles, but we do not export our internal definitions into articles as such: compare original research with  and so on (of course we have articles on WP itself, so we have notability in Wikipedia, but that's still completely different from notability
— User:WTFITS, 04:01, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)