Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Data laundering


 * 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 no consensus. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 05:18, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

Data laundering

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This article fails WP:GNG as does not have significant coverage of this subject in reliable sources and will at the moment be nothing more than a dictionary definition. A WP:BEFORE search found no reliable sources. -KAP03(Talk &bull;&#32;Contributions &bull;&#32;Email) 23:15, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:09, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Puzzled by the nominator's statement as Gnews reveals coverage such as this, for one. Which I see was on the article when it was tagged for deletion. That's just one article -- there do seem to be others at Gnews. At the very least a merge to something, I should think. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 00:11, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete the article is primarily definitional in nature, and this is not a commonly used term. Power~enwiki (talk) 22:42, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 05:39, 12 May 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 04:11, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep — it is a new term but it's been discussed in-depth. —Мандичка YO 😜 11:41, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep — it is not a new term, it is at least several decades old. Nor is it specifically crime-related. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 14:38, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as failing WP:NEO. A gScholar search   reveals longstanding use of the term in chemistry, in a manner unrelated to definition on the page article.  gNews hits  are remarkably sparse, considering the intense media focus on data theft and manipulation.  Worse, one of the few hits in that search, [[Sate (magazine)] defines "data laundering" here: " Information-intensive companies promote government power through a form of data laundering. They lobby to encourage the government to collect more personal information, and then argue that the personal data should be released under open government laws." .  That's different form the the definition on the page, but Slate supports its definition with an academic article .  Summing up I quickly  2 other used for the phrase "data laundering", of which the chemical one dominates searches in academic literature.   I did not, however, find the kind of support required by WP:NEO for the use described offered in this article.[[User:E.M.Gregory|E.M.Gregory]] (talk) 15:56, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is a slang phrase, new definition of an old word, or neologism, which has not yet caught on. Bearian (talk) 21:42, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep -- I see enough Google book results to suggest that this is a notable concept. K.e.coffman (talk) 00:40, 25 May 2017 (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.