Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elbow roomers


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 21:02, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Elbow roomers

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(Note: my PROD was removed.) Not a notable term. According to the source in the article, which only mentions the term once in a quote, the term was made up by John Fraser Hart, and I could not find any record of this term being used by anyone else. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 20:05, 20 June 2024 (UTC) Delete - Made-up topic or possible hoax. The single "source" was added 12 years after creation and does not support the term, it merely uses the familiar "elbow room". Could not find any sources that use the term. –dlthewave ☎ 21:27, 20 June 2024 (UTC) Correction - The article does mention "elbow roomers", but this single mention is not sufficient to establish notability. Still a Delete. –dlthewave ☎ 01:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Social science. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 20:05, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It isn’t a hoax; the newspaper article (not fully accessible from the link in the Wikipedia article) quotes the professor who states he made up the term “elbow roomers”. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:31, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I accessed the article using the Wikipedia Library. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:48, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out, I was on mobile and didn't realize I was only seeing the first few paragraphs. –dlthewave ☎ 01:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete: ONE source used for an article is a rather thin argument for notability. I also don't find anything else that uses this term, other than this list on a website for architects. I don't see notability. Oaktree b (talk) 23:32, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * delete One fellow's phrase which didn't catch on. GBook hits, save one, are all either a single children's book or are people complaining about tables too close in restaurants; even with that there are less than ten hits. For all I know there may be a widely-used term for these people, but this isn't it. Mangoe (talk) 01:03, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Additional note: the dePRODder’s comments can be found on the article talk page. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NEO and WP:GNG. The term appears to be lightly used in WP:TRIVIALMENTIONS across a handful of sources to mean different things: people who look for more space in the suburbs (ArchDaily), components of a masonry structure (A'Design Awards), people who jostle for space (Saltman), and people looking for more space in restaurants (Zagat). None of these amount to WP:SIGCOV and there's no evidence that the term is in circulation to mean what the article says it means. Dclemens1971 (talk) 22:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. A cursory search for better sourcing did not indicate that a more thorough one would produce results. Darkfrog24 (talk) 00:41, 27 June 2024 (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.