Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cyberpedagogy


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The result was delete. Neil ( ► ) 10:06, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Cyberpedagogy

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From the article: "Currently, nobody knows about cyberpedagogy", and from a previous version: "It was first coined in May 2007 in Novel Cafe". Fails WP:NEO, WP:RS, WP:NOR, WP:NFT. Contested PROD. Sandstein 07:35, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * speedydelete Delete for lack of content. DGG 07:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If it were obvious, I'd have speedied it. What WP:CSD would you propose? Sandstein 07:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No speedy deletion criterion applies. However, the article is original research, and, by its own admission (as noted above), unverifiable.  For starters, a quick search reveals that the person specified is far from the only person to have had the bright idea of coining the name "Cyberpedagogy", and certainly not the first to have done so.  None of these people who have made these coinages appear to agree with one another on what cyberpedagogy is.  It appears to be a nonce word used in article and course titles without denoting an actual definite concept that has been properly documented and that has entered the corpus of human knowledge.  Delete. Uncle G 09:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Actually "Cyberpedagogy" gets a respectable 214 nonwiki Ghits, some of them from academic sites. However, the article in its current form is unpresentable. I've already faced similar dilemmas several times here at AfD. Stammer 09:10, 23 May 2007 (UTC). It's on Gscholar too and, I am crystalballing now, I'm pretty sure it will mightily grow up there. Stammer 09:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Counting Google hits is not research. Actually reading what the search tool finds is research. If you read what Google turns up you'll find the situation is as I described it: A whole load of people (excluding those who are simply talking about pedagogy) independently coining the same nonce word for article titles and course titles, with no agreement with one another on what it actually is, precisely because they are all coining the nonce independently, and pretty much zero definition of the concept that the nonce is supposed to denote. Uncle G 09:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The word appears to refer, quite consistently and not surprisingly, to pedagogy in cyberspace. Stammer 10:08, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Distance Education per my previous argument. Stammer 10:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as neologism – you can stick "cyber—" on the front of anything, but it's still an overly fanciful portmanteau, not a legitimate new word. tomasz.  11:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete WP:CRYSTAL non notable, unvarfieable, Ect ect. DBZROCKS Its over 9000!!! 12:17, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per W guice.JJL 12:47, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect per Stammer, potential search term; make sure the user ends up somewhere sensible instead of nowhere at all. cab 23:22, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.