Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawnmower Man Effect


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The result was   redirect to Dean Anthony Gratton. ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 17:29, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Lawnmower Man Effect

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A very recently created term that has no indication at all of any sort of widespread use outside of the individual who coined the term. I was unable to find any mention of this term in any sort of reliable third pary sources. Falls under WP:NEO. PROD was contested by page creator with no explanation. Rorshacma (talk) 17:55, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete There are some blog and website uses of the term, but at Google Book and Google News Archive there is only the SocialMediaToday writing by Dean Gratton, who coined the term. Google Scholar records no use of the term. It appears to be a neologism which is not notable at this point. Edison (talk) 18:06, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The author of this article has a habit of writing Wikipedia articles that are poorly sourced to non-independent, non-reliable sources, generally promoting Dean Gratton. This is no exception. It is sourced to book sales sites and an article penned by Gratton, the book's author. Sionk (talk) 21:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: Fails WP:N. SL93 (talk) 22:36, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep: SocialMediaToday.com is a reliable and independent third-party source. Opn800 (talk) 09:25, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Opn800 should have self-identified as the creator of the article. Edison (talk) 02:05, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment The article that is on SocialMediaToday.com, however, is written by the guy that came up with the term. Thus is fails the third party bit, since it does nothing to show that the term is widely used by anyone other than the individual who invented it.  Rorshacma (talk) 16:06, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

*Keep: All references provided are sourced to Gratton's work - how can that possibly be deemed promotional? "He wrote a book, but we can't tell you what it is because that would be promotional", said the Wikipedia guy. Opn800 (talk) 09:30, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Although AFD is not a vote, you shouldn't be 'voting' twice, as it creates a misleading impression of consensus. Robofish (talk) 15:18, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dean Anthony Gratton, where it's covered in adequate detail. Not yet notable enough for its own article. Robofish (talk) 15:18, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect. I'd say delete, but it's a viable search term. Bearian (talk) 16:47, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, you can search on Google for anything these days, but the results for 'Lawnmower Man Effect' are all pointing back to Gratton's self-written SocialMediaToday article, or to other posts by 'grattonboy'. Sionk (talk) 17:35, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Redirect as per Robofish. --Kvng (talk) 02:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
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