Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Floridation

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Floridation
A self-admitted neologism, with a totally POV article. Besides which, the very first sentence is untrue, as a simple Google search for "floridation' will show. Can anything happen to this other than reduction to a dicdef? --jpgordon {gab} 03:12, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Delete. Neologism. RickK 04:40, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)

Keep. NOT a neologism. I cleaned up the article's content after jpgordon's suggestion to Google the word. I thought I had coined it, but the word was first used in 2000 and has now acquired apparently independent usages for American elections and for foreign elections influenced by the United States. Many journalists have used it before I did. If "vote-rigging" deserves its own Wikipedia entry, "Floridation" certainly deserves better than relegation to the dictionary! Cshea 05:54, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)cshea
 * Keep A valid entry. The backstory that caused the word to be coined is too much for a simple dictionary entry. DCEdwards1966 06:11, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)'
 * Delete. Neologism that is not yet in significant or widespread use. Googling is complicated because the vast majority of hits are misspellings of "fluoridation." I note, however, that Googling for "floridation" on Google News yields zero hits. As I write this, early voting and controversies in Florida have already begun and I do not believe there would be zero hits if this neologism had gained any traction at all. Googling the Web, in order to get rid of false hits it is necessary to try something like: a search on "floridation -water -teeth -dental -environment -fluids -fluorine -fluoridation -fluoride -health" and this yields only 130 hits. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 12:40, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I repeat: KEEP. I went through the Google listings and found refereneces dating back to November 2000 (San Francisco Chronicle), May 2003 (Baltimore Sun article by Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III and a national petition drive by them using the word, and a further use in a December 2003 paper. It was used in a Guardian paper in 2004 and is taking on steam with an expanded meaning to refer to foreign elections.  This is an important word whose etymology and history is far too important to relegate to the Wiktionary. 172.195.27.91 13:05, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)Cshea
 * When it is clear that it is an important word, it can be added then. There is no rush. Wikipedia is not Wired. There is not need for us to be first in reporting a "meme on the rise." I'm not sure where your Google hits are, but they are not in Google News: Did you mean: Fluoridation Your search - Floridation - did not match any documents. No pages were found containing "floridation". [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 15:08, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * We do try avoid self-promoting puff pieces here. Remove all the references to yourself, and all the non-NPOV material, and what's left? A neologism. --jpgordon {gab} 15:10, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * This is not an article about the Florida mess, but about a pun. The Florida mess has been covered much better elsewhere. Delete. &#8212; Bill 17:53, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * DELETE and REDIRECT to fluoridation, as its a common mispelling. 132.205.15.4 18:18, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * You'll want to log in, as anonymous votes aren't counted. Wile E. Heresiarch 18:43, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, then redirect to fluoridation. Wile E. Heresiarch 18:43, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. --Improv 20:04, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Please read the article before enering "delete - Redirect to flouridation. THis article has to do with contemporary electoral processes, not water flouridation. Merely being a homophone does not make it a synonym. 172.193.22.78 23:37, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)cshea
 * As you've also misspelt fluoridation the other common way (flouridation), it's very likely people are looking for water enrichment issues when doing floridation. "floridation election" gets all of 60 hits on Google Groups. I'd say that politicos aren't using the term. neoligism, DELETE and Redirect to fluoridation 132.205.15.42 02:55, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * My high school chemistry teacher said "Just remember, it's not 'flo urine.'" I've never misspelled it since. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:40, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep --Pgreenfinch 09:00, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to water fluoridation. -Sean Curtin 18:57, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * Definite delete. RadicalSubversiv E 22:02, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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