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Neutrality[edit]

The article isn't necessarily neutral. Almost the whole text somehow hints, that NIMBY is a pejorative term. However in reality, protest in many of the cases is valid or even necessary.

Agreed, this is like a laughably non-neutral article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.75.231.153 (talk) 03:47, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

indeed weak article, long in listing, acronyms, tagging and labeling and very short in explaining the dynamics of the many motivations of NIMBY, with a strong pejorative slant. Needs more neutrality and better writing/sources, fewer lists. Tytire (talk) 19:08, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think it’s fair to say that NIMBY is a largely pejorative term, however the article cites single opinion columns as its sources for a number of specific claims, bringing its neutrality into question. Sobeak (talk) 21:48, 9 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List[edit]

I think this page really needs a list of cities and towns with a particularly strong reputation for NIMBY behavor.

NIMBY, nimby or Nimby / NIMBYism, nimbyism or Nimbyism - common nouns, initialisms and proper nouns[edit]

Avatar317 Hello, my edit was reverted so I wanted to start a discussion about capitalization in this article. In my opinion, nimby (common noun) and NIMBY (initialism) are ok spellings, but Nimby (proper noun) is not.

Doing a search and picking some random dictionary definitions, all of them define nimby as a noun. While the title on the web pages varies, all write the entry itself in all lowercase:

I agree that NIMBY is an acronym, but I also hold that it can be a common noun, and thus should be written in lowercase. This would be in line with the Wikipedia policy to avoid un-necessary capitalization: WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization"). I'm a little uncertain, but have a feeling that Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization) supports the change from "NIMBY (or Nimby)" to "NIMBY (or nimby)" in the lead. And, "nimby" in the middle of a sentence is much easier to read, in my opinion, as it doesn't sound like someone is SCREAMING IN CAPS LOCK to you. The "Nimby" is a weird one: In general, I like the advice from Wikipedia manual of style to avoid unnecessary capitalization, since I think it is misused a lot by journalists or marketers to grab attention by choosing randomly which word they want to capitalize. I'm not saying that NIMBY should go away, but once readers are inside the article I would prefer to use lowercase only. There may be some policy that capitalization should be used thoughout the article though (I'm not sure, maybe Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations has some relevant information). Most definitely I also hold that nimbyism should be regarded as a common noun and should be written in lowercase. I therefore hope that my edit can be reinstated. Sauer202 (talk) 17:19, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I feel that this is a difficult call here, so we can use the way you suggest/prefer. I agree that: "And, "nimby" in the middle of a sentence is much easier to read, in my opinion, as it doesn't sound like someone is SCREAMING IN CAPS LOCK to you." But for contrast, we have HIV (pronounced as letters) and AIDS (pronounced as a word), which both exist as uppercase, and looking again at the references to this article, it seems that half use the all-caps version all the time and half the references use it the way you prefer. Thanks for discussing. I have undone my revert of your edit. ---Avatar317 ^(talk) 00:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Sauer202:: It later dawned on me that maybe "Nimby" is best for within article use, similar to the way Republican and Democrat is used when describing people; a term that describes people who share some set of political beliefs. Most news articles use "Republican" or "Republicans" and the same for other political parties: "Green" or "Greens". I thought we should discuss this more before changing the article. ---Avatar317 ^(talk) 22:46, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Avatar317: I would classify Democrat and Republican as proper nouns, while some alternate common nouns (depending on circumstance) could be right-wing or left-wing (or whatever other labels which fits, no puns intended). Similarly in regards of the Greens, I would say that Green would be a proper noun for someone associated with a specific party (for example the Green Party in the United States), while a green party, green parties or the green movement as a whole (as a common noun) could be used to for all political parties which has a strong focus on the climate or environment. I mean that this article speaks about NIMBY or nimby as more general terms (common noun), not a proper noun, and hence I feel that Nimby would be wrong. Sauer202 (talk) 18:53, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this qualifies as an anacronym yet (=people still remember what the letters stand for), so Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent style and case seems relevant. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:14, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal[edit]

@Firebrace, WikileaksIntern, Avatar317, PK-WIKI, and Epicgenius: I propose merging CAVE people into NIMBY. It is not notable on its own and is better suited to being a section of this article than its own article. A merge would not cause any article size issues. T3h 1337 b0y 00:55, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree and support the merge. ---Avatar317 ^(talk) 04:39, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes good idea. Firebrace (talk) 17:23, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support, the variations are best addressed in this article. W 42 14:07, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support, they're both related, and share the same view. Explodicator7331 (talk) 16:09, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 18:51, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]