Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amerigine


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:40, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Amerigine

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Although the articles subject purports to be a theoretical pre-Clovis culture existing in the western hemisphere which evolved in situ, it fails to offer any supporting references beyond a single (self published?) paper from 1961 and also fails to explain why this apparent fringe theory should be considered notable. Deconstructhis (talk) 15:49, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I can find no evidence that this is notable. I did find uses of the word to mean Native American (one on Google Books, several here and this  is clearly relevant. An article by the guy is at Wikisource: . And we have an article on Savant, founded by "a group of poets and avant-garde writers and artists". Jonson is a poet. I note the obvious original research in the article. Dougweller (talk) 20:40, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * A request for a redirect has just popped up for this article: Deconstructhis (talk) 05:40, 21 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:26, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:27, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * delete - not used in real science. fictional. From Wikisource: "Amerigine is a scientific treatise written by American writer and poet B. Jonson and published in 1979 by Savant, a not-for-profit literary publisher." - UtherSRG (talk) 06:32, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * delete I am having trouble finding sources that use this phrase in the context of the articel.Slatersteven (talk) 14:06, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. A Google Scholar search for Amerigine turns up only one hit, and that from a book on how to talk to children about world art that mentions in passing that it is another way of referring to American Indians and looks suspiciously like the article Indigenous peoples of the Americas before Amerigine was removed for giving undue credence to a fringe theory.  The word failed a request for verification at the Wiktionary (pointed to by Dougweller above) and was deleted.  I'd say this fails to meet the minimum threshold for having received "significant coverage in reliable secondary sources."  RJC  TalkContribs 23:52, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
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