Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bollystan

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. While the term is sourced, it failed to reach the level of discourse necessary to keep as an encyclopedia article. If, however, this term comes into greater use, recreation of the article may become appropriate at some future time. Rossami (talk) 05:39, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Bollystan
Neologism. --fvw *  20:47, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)
 * Delete - Jpo 23:51, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. An admitted neologism, no less; the page linked to as its "first use" is dated December 3, 2004. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 23:54, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, neologism. Megan1967 01:24, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Wait! I was ready to vote delete until I noticed how serious the source and propagation so far are. An article in the current Foreign Policy, a highly influential journal with 10 million readers, begins: "Finally, there is a word for where I live: Bollystan." Created by a scholar at the Brookings Institution, a top U.S. think tank.  We have a great article about Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet, a catchphrase from a press release in the last provincial election here. That survived vfd. Here we have a serious word that's already part of global discourse about the rise of South Asia to global power. Cleanup/expand/but keep. (Btw, Google shows the word has been used otherwise, notably as a British magazine title.) Samaritan 08:27, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Rewrite The current article appears to be copied from, but it seems noteworthy enough as Samaritan pointed out. - Arun  07:34, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Del. Nonce expression whose 15 minutes of fame have probably passed. If it rises, well beyond "68 of about 138" Google hits, it can be resurrected without the gap producing harm. --Jerzy(t) 04:04 & 04:41, 2005 Jan 23 (UTC)

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