Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big sombrero economy


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The result was   delete. Valley2 city ‽ 20:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Big sombrero economy

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A neologism from John Blossomin's book "Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives and Our Future". And the article creator? John Blossomin himself. If this wasn't a big enough problem, the term is only used by him, and is therefore not notable. KuroiShiroi (contribs) 19:59, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete and/or transwiki to Wiktionary. An interestingly-named concept, but all six references I could find were seemingly generated by the author himself.  Hence, there are no reliable sources that I could find.  I'm not sure if Wiktionary allows self-generated neologisms or if it requires something more in the way of provenance.  Accounting4Taste: talk 20:37, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

--Jblossom (talk) 20:48, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Whatever, the world's a funny place some times. You publish a book by a reputable press and it's considered self-generated. Perhaps if I had my PR guy do it you would have considered it. Thanks anyway.
 * Well, no, actually if your PR guy had done it we probably would have deleted it more quickly, rather than giving it this thorough public hearing. If you have any constructive citations to offer to demonstrate that anyone except you uses this phrase, we're all eager to hear them.  Accounting4Taste: talk 23:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Also see Avoid neologisms. Accounting4Taste: talk 04:51, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. Appears to be here only to promote the book. If the idea gains a wider currency then it can have an article.  We don't give it an article in order for it to gain wider currency, that's putting the head before the sombrero.  Sp in ni  ng  Spark  21:22, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Avoid neologisms. Rd232 talk 19:49, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


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