Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Impact on Global Media

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2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Impact on Global Media
The article seems mostly to be about how the Dec 2004 tsunami might well have an impact on the use of "tsunami" in trade names (for which the media are pretty much irrelevant) and the metaphorical use of the word in the media. Thus it seems to be mistitled; it would better be 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami impact on the non-literal use of the word "tsunami" -- which of course is laborious and hardly the kind of thing this encyclopedia usually covers.

That's its purpose at one level, at least. At another, it uses findings from the Global Language Monitor and is written in such a way that it's hard not to suspect that it's the GLM rather than "tsunami" that's the main subject here.

We learn that the use of the word "tsunami" in "the" (which?) "mass media" grew enormously immediately after the big one. This of course is no surprise, but the only evidence is that provided by GLM. A look in the discussion page reveals that the article was in effect written by GLM, so this is original research. But let's not belabor this: we really don't need research to tell us that "tsunami" became much more widely written and spoken after the big tsunami.

We then read that Among the immediate impacts were found to be that Tsunami-related product names began to undergo intense scrutiny and that sporting organizations had to reassess tsunami-related team names. If true, this wouldn't be surprising -- but no examples are given of name changes (proposed or actual), and there are no further details.

There's then a rehash of the derivation of tsunami and the inappropriateness of the term "tidal wave", a prediction of the future effect on "the world of consumer packaged goods" and another prediction of the effect on journalistic metaphorical hyperbole.

There's nothing interesting here: just speculation, original research into what doesn't even need research, and a bit of plugging for one service, GLM. And if the article were rewritten without irrelevance and following research that did not depend on proprietary algorithms and such mumbo-jumbo, my guess is that all it would say is that some people became rather less keen on the figurative use of a single word. This would be pretty vacuous. Delete. -- Hoary 04:10, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)


 * Abstain. I didn't look at the article. I just wanted to say that this is the longest reason for delete ever! Congratulations on the record. --Lord Voldemort 23:10, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Merge Some of the information into the 2004 Tsunami article and delete this one. EatAlbertaBeef 04:15, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: "Merge and delete" is an invalid vote (see Guide to Votes for deletion. If content is merged, a redirect must be left to preserve attribution history.   &mdash; Gwalla | Talk 04:23, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Question: What "information"? I think there is none, aside from (i) "tidal wave" is a misnomer (which we already know); (ii) "tsunami" is derived from such and such (which we already know); (iii) the media talked more about "tsunami" after 26 Dec 04 than before (which is obvious); (iv) "tsunami" has been used figuratively (which is trivial). -- Hoary 05:08, 2005 Jun 25 (UTC)
 * Delete POV original research and speculation. JamesBurns 04:20, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - too far over the line into original research and crystal ball-gazing. Personally I have seen no lasting impact on the use of the term tsunami or on media in general and I spend far too much time watching for these sorts of things. 23skidoo 07:03, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Content-free ramblings; mostly a plug for PJJP's GLM. --Macrakis 16:42, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete somewhat interesting original research that you'd normally to expect to find on page 35 of your daily newspaper. CanadianCaesar 23:47, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, original research, possible advertising. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:42, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. It's not original research.  It cites its source.  Just take out all the references to GLM and replace them with one reference at the bottom of the main Indian Ocean tsunami page, then merge all the useful content. Superm401 | Talk July 2, 2005 15:54 (UTC)
 * What "useful content"? -- Hoary July 2, 2005 18:46 (UTC)
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