User talk:StuCarter

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Notability on wikipedia
I just realized that at the deletion discussion we have used the word notability, without explaining what we mean. In discussions on wikipedia, "notability" usually refers to our guideline WP:Notability which is used to decide which article we should have. The guideline essentially says that a subject should have been discussed in several published reliable sources that are independent of the subject, for us to have an article on it. For the case of Boo Radley paradigm, we need several academic/media articles or books (besides the original essay) to have used and talked about the term before we create or keep an article on it. Since this does not seem to be the case yet, we are calling the subject "non-notable neologism". It is not our intention to belittle the idea expressed in the Anthony Gear's essay, especially since the idea it proposes is one that I and many other reviewers agree with. Hope this makes the wiki-jargon clearer. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 20:20, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks that does help and it may be better if I change the title of the page rather than deleting the article. The phenemenon is real and clarified enough but the new term is as yet not published. Stuart