Talk:NIMBY

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Neutrality

Latest comment: 2 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

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 what you're saying is that the article has bias. This appears to be toward maintaining the myths around people who object to developers plans. As such it appears to list and invalidate (denounce) a number of common objections to developments which could only be validated by producing case by case evidence. Dixx (talk) 13:16, 1 August 2024 (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

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

NIMBY in the PH context

Latest comment: 29 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Possible sources (tho these are largely opinion articles):

I'll leave the editing job to an editor who is more experienced on this possibly controversial issue. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:55, 21 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Data centers?

Latest comment: 20 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

It seems like a lot of folks don’t want a data center around them. Could there be something for this in the article? From D0nk M3m3s (talk) 23:31, 30 August 2026 (UTC)Reply