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Therapeutic nihilism was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (April 5, 2017). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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Good Start

The article has a lot of information and some good sources behind it, but it needs to be changed to fit wikipedia. The language and tone come more from a textbook than from a neutral source. This is the major critique I have for this article. The organization of the article seems sound, but consider dividing "history" into a few more pieces. It comes in distinct waves, especially in the 19th century, so maybe that is something that you would want to keep separate. A good start! Ccoope52 (talk) 15:42, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good Job!

I read through your edits and I think it was a very good topic to discuss since it is was a very lacking wiki article before the edits. I think you did a great job in the History of Therapeutic Nihilism section however I would suggest improving the introduction to the section since I feel it sounds a bit awkward and it should have a broader scope. Additionally, I didn't feel that the Medicine section was properly titled and the information in that section would have been better in the history section. Overall, I thought you made very good contributions. BestNikkilopezsuarez (talk) 05:37, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Dhk0308. Peer reviewers: Ccoope52, Gaukulius, Nikkilopezsuarez, Jshamul.

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Whoa, Conservatism

The contention in this article that "therapeutic nihilim" has never been mainstream is absurd. It misses TN's defining role in modern conservatism, whose keystone tenet is that society's problems can't be solved, so laissez les bons temps rouler. This is the position of Edmund Burke ("unintended consequences") and Peter Viereck ("But I'm a Conservative!" in the Atlantic in April 1940) and the "free marketeers." The record in this article must be set straight.

Dstlascaux (talk) 15:20, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I excitedly followed a link to this article thinking that there was some form of therapy out there where people were made better through nihilism, kind of like art therapy, only instead it would involve realizing how pointless everything is. Watch this: I'm not going to sign my anonymous comment because someone wrote a bot to do it. (Yes, because it is so very important that everyone knows what anonymous IP address it came from, even though they can just look in the edit history.) Eventually some poor soul who is so very dead inside is going to delete this comment as off topic, and that will round out a perfect demonstration of the complete futility of the lives of everyone involved. (If I'm lucky they may even put a sternly-worded template on this IP address' talk page that will never be seen because it's a dynamic address.) ...and that, my people, is nihilism therapy. Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.66.187.132 (talk) 02:47, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editing page

It seems like therapeutic nihilism page has very minimal information regarding the topic. I intend to add 750~1000 words on the overall concept of therapeutic nihilism as well as history behind it. Please let me know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhk0308 (talk • contribs) 08:59, 24 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Therapeutic nihilism/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: David Eppstein (talk · contribs) 15:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is only start-class, and has a valid banner requesting additional citations that has been in place since 2013. Many paragraphs are entirely unsourced. It is not ready for GA nomination, and meets the "Immediate failure" criteria in Wikipedia:Good article criteria. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. It's incoherent. E Eng 21:13, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]