User talk:Smithonian

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Proposed deletion of Ideolexico
A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Ideolexico, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process&#32; because of the following concern:
 * the source provided makes it clear that this word is merely the Spanish equivalent of the established English term Idiolect.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. JohnCD (talk) 16:24, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Ideolexico
Hi. I think you would do better to add to the existing article Idiolect, rather than introduce a new article with a Spanish head-word which people are unlikely to search for. On a quick search, I can find no evidence that "ideoléxico" is used in English. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 16:28, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * After thinking about it overnight, I have decided that I would like some more opinions about this. I have therefore removed the Proposed Deletion tag, and nominated the article under the Articles for Deletion process. This will start a debate at Articles for deletion/Ideolexico, where your views would be very welcome. These debates normally last 7 days, after which an administrator will decide what is the consensus. The formal notice of the AfD is below. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 22:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Ideolexico
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem that Ideolexico meets these criteria, an editor has started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Ideolexico. Don't forget to add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last seven days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, a neutral third party will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. JohnCD (talk) 22:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
 * As I hoped, inviting other views has produced useful comments: another editor has pointed out the distinction between the prefixes "ideo-" (idea) and "idio-" (individual, personal, distinct), which had confused me. My remarks about "ideolect" being an established English word are wrong - the established word is "idiolect", and your article is about a new term or neologism, which by Wikipedia's normal policy (see WP:NEO) should not have an article until there is substantial evidence that it is in use. Your comments are welcome at the deletion debate. JohnCD (talk) 11:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Political Semantic Fields Theory


The article Political Semantic Fields Theory has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * This article is irretrievably muddled to the extent that I have no idea what it is about. One of the concepts, ideolexico, has already had its article deleted. Also, the page title and intro don't seem to match. In spite of the tags, the author has made no attempt to improve the article.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Malcolma (talk) 16:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)