Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Holocracy (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. Monty 845  19:31, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Holocracy
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Removed PROD per WP:PROD. Reason in removed PROD was: WP:SOAP Non-notable word/concept Illia Connell (talk) 14:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. I was able to find several instances of this word through Google Scholar and Books: (1) denoting "universal democracy" (book title, no other instances); (2) a synonym for holarchy, here; (3) a synonym for "sociocracy", here. Each of these uses is essentially neologistic, and so falls foul of WP:NEO. At best the material could be incorporated into the holarchy page, but I doubt it's notable enough even for that. Alexrexpvt (talk) 15:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Alex, why do you say that those references, that actually exist, are THEMSELVES neologistic? Is not your argument rhetorical as well as self-contradictory? --PiPhD (talk) 17:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * No. In each case the author seems to have coined the word anew, apparently unaware that someone had used it before, and given it an original denotation: to that extent, each word is a neologism. It requires a leap of synthesis to assert that these are iterations of a single well-established term, a leap which WP:NEO specifically cautions against. Alexrexpvt (talk) 17:47, 4 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete per Alexrexpvt; this is a textbook WP:NEO. § FreeRangeFrog croak


 * Delete per WP:NEO. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 01:31, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails general notability guidlines. Non notable WP:NEO --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 22:28, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:58, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:58, 5 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete Wikipedia is not a dictionary of neologisms. TFD (talk) 23:08, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
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