Talk:List of buzzwords/Archives/2012

Waffle House
Why is Waffle House listed as a buzzword? Is this a term that means something other than the restaurant chain? 65.246.156.251 (talk) 14:48, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

What anout business intelligence?
Hello, I think business intelligence fits buzzword's definition because it describes a non-intelligent (at least as intelligent as most of other common technologies) technique for data analysis. It is used in most of business/consultant current vocabulary to describe an old and elemental procedure.

Adding references for buzzwords
When adding a new word or phrase to one of the lists in this page, please add a reference to an independent external source identifying it as a buzzword (but not one like Answer.com, which just pulls verbatim from cached Wikipedia content). This will help get this page compliant with Wikipedia standards, and legitimize the word/phrase in question. If you don't know how to add a reference, just wrap the ref URL in "&#91; &#93;" after the word.

I've been adding references for existing words. At some point, after other contributors have received due warning, someone should probably go through and remove any words/phrases that don't have references. Cheers, Careax 21:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced buzzwords removed
I've removed all unsourced buzzwords from this article and placed them on Talk:List of buzzwords/Removed content. That way they can be recovered on a case-by-case basis once a valid external source or reference has been found. This was done to improve the quality of the list of buzzwords page, and prevent it from being targeted for future deletion.

Going forward, if you would like to add a new buzzword (or restore a previously deleted one) to the list, please only do so if you have a valid external source. Thanks.

--Careax 17:18, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Bolded?
Just a quick question. Why are some of the words on the list (especially those not internally linked) bolded? Jedibob5 (talk) 18:11, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

"disconnect"?
How, specifically, is "disconnect" used as a buzzword? It's a perfectly standard word. If it's used as a buzzword, it's the nature of the usage, rather than the word itself, that makes it a buzzwork. Similar comments apply to a number of other words in this list. Their buzzword usage, as opposed to their standard usage, needs to get explained. Michael Hardy (talk) 00:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)


 * From its citation,
 * Disconnect, as in, "Oops, we put 4 billion in the wrong column. Darn. Must've been a disconnect."
 * by the president of McCall Media & Marketing, as published by Blethen Maine Newspapers. I'll try to explain it within the list without sounding ridiculous. –Pomte 03:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. But I'm still not sure I understand it. I suppose explaining these sorts of things without sounding ridiculous could be a challenge. Michael Hardy (talk) 18:53, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

"neurodiversity"
This appears to be a meaningless buzzword that's making its way across the wiki. If words like this get out of control, we'll have to start calling health "physiodiversity." Freckles becomes "dermadiversity," round and round we go. Opinions on adding neurodiversity to the list? 24.252.195.3 (talk) 04:00, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Broken reference
A broken reference  was created in this edit of 12 February 2009 by Biggianteggman. Does anybody know what was supposed to be the content of this reference? Alternatively, if somebody has an another good reference, we could substitute it for the broken one. Debresser (talk) 13:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Politics and current affairs list
It appears a few editors have simply tacked on additions (properly unreferenced, of course), which don't even seem to be correctly contained in the list. Can someone please help clean that up? I'm not fluent in Wiki markup... 68.188.146.162 (talk) 11:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

portmanteau words which qualify as Buzzwords, for discussion.
Would  Alcopop and Facadism qualify.? Tree Hugger? Perhaps a link to 'portmanteau', might be worth putting under See Also. Signed220.101.66.30 (talk) 12:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC) Clean sweep (naval), should that be listed? Signed220.101.66.30 (talk) 12:30, 7 November 2010 (UTC) In legislation they talk of 'Sunset provision', not sure if it should go on the list? Signed220.101.66.30 (talk) 09:18, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development is a common buzzword in many government policy statements.59.93.88.106 (talk) 14:02, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Edit request on 7 December 2011
The use of "impact" instead of "effect" should be changed to "affect". The change that is already listed makes the commonplace error of confusing "effect" which when used as a verb means "to produce" or "to bring about" with "affect" which when used as a verb means to "to influence" or "to have an impact upon." A good grammarian recognizes this error right away.

71.224.208.34 (talk) 15:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * From the effect Wikitonary page: The homophones “affect” and “effect” can both be used as nouns or verbs, but when used as a noun the word affect is limited to uses in the psychology field, and the above definitions for effect are much more common. Therefore the given statement is correct. --Jnorton7558 (talk) 16:48, 7 December 2011 (UTC)