Talk:Meatspace

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Let's try and not be like urban dictionary, listing rubbish words that are only used by a small proportion of the population.

It is not established enough to list here on wiki, a few random quotes won't do it.

Article cited by Wall Street Journal
The quote is "Oh, and "meatspace" is what people who spend too much time in cyberspace call the real world. And yes, it's catching on: It already has its own entry in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia."

Article cited by Wired News
I first learned of this term from the show Crossballs. Should the popular culture refrences not be mentioned?

First Life
Once someone writes up an article for First Life, could someone watching this article toss it into "See also"? Info at http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/first_life_sl_parody.html.samwaltz 12:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Nevermind. Taken care of. Kinda. samwaltz 12:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Transwiki to Wiktionary
This page is an excellent dictionary definition - and nothing more. The opinions offered in the recent AFD discussion are unconvincing. Most tacitly acknowledged that this is a dicdef (perhaps forgetting that Wikipedia is not a dictionary). Two people asserted that this is already more than mere dictionary content but I see nothing beyond the meaning, origins, usage and related terms of a word. That's all lexical content. There is no encyclopedic content here yet - and given the stability of the page, it's unlikely to become more anytime soon.

The current contents should be merged with the existing Wiktionary page and this page replaced with a soft-redirect using the wi template. 12.168.68.11 15:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 23:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

i'm glad this article just has like
a ton of unreferenced claims =) Cats AND hats (talk) 02:37, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

objection to proposed deletion
The deletion of this article was proposed on March 13, 2008 on the grounds that it is a neologism.

The Wikipedia deletion policy does not object to neologisms per se, but to neologisms "not supported by reliable sources". This article now has four references (three of which I added), two external links (one of which I added), and a Wiktionary link.

The Wikipedia deletion policy states that "articles than can never be other than a dictionary article ... can be merged ... or moved to Wiktionary". This article is more than a dictionary article, because it discusses the history of the term.

I personally found even the previous proposed-for-deletion version of the article useful when I read it today.

The deletion message states that I may remove the deletion message, so I will.Thiesen (talk) 23:22, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Added secondary sources
I noticed that the Wikipedia guidelines recommend using secondary rather than primary sources in articles about neologisms, so I added two secondary sources. Thiesen (talk) 06:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Propose merge
While the term "meatspace" has a unique history and meaning, it refers to the same concept as real life. That means we should have only one article (one concept, one article), and this should redirect there. Powers T 16:10, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
 * As a confirmed mergist, I support. :) Ideally, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th external links should be incorporated as references, beforehand. Then a complete merging would be easier. (The Urban dictionary link can be forgotten. The MeFi thread should be linked from a talkpage somewhere, as internet-investigation at its finest - incomplete but hilarious... :) -- Quiddity (talk) 21:26, 26 August 2010 (UTC)