Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of environmental organizations by acronym, initialism, or pseudo-blend


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  16:42, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

List of environmental organizations by acronym, initialism, or pseudo-blend

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This list doesn't really surve a purpose, and I really doubt anyone's going to search for a title like that. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 21:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete That is one unlikely title alright, what the hell is a "pseudo-blend"? I can't find it here or at Wiktionary.I don't think "initialism" is a very common term either, although it is at least an actual word. Anyway, it's a pretty flimsy concept for a list article. Beeblbrox (talk) 21:52, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Also there's already a perfectly good list here. Beeblbrox (talk) 22:00, 6 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom and Beeblbrox. "Pesudo-blend"? That's a new one. Nsk92 (talk) 22:02, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  00:12, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and redundant to List of environmental organizations. I am also perplexed by the use of "pseudo-blend" so I googled it. This page is the top result. Also "initialism" gives me a red squiggly line under it when I type it in, so it's not a word Firefox recognizes. I think they were going for "abbreviation". Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 01:26, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Irrelevant pedantry. An initialism is an abbreviation that's pronounced as a series of letters (like FBI), whereas an acronym is an abbreviation that's pronounced as a word (like NASA). I have no idea what a pseudo-blend is. Deor (talk) 04:42, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I was trying to be funny with the whole "red squiggly line" bit. Doc StrangeMailbox Logbook 13:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Another randomly assembled, non-encyclopedic list. I am sure it was created with the best of intentions, but it doesn't fit into Wikipedia's requirements. Ecoleetage (talk) 01:53, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - per User:Beeblbrox. WP:NFT on the title. WP:PAPER means we can write out the full words at List of environmental organizations --T-rex 04:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: I think, frankly, that this is an WP:POINT nomination.   RGTraynor  09:20, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you please elaborate on that, I don't understand your reasoning. Beeblbrox (talk) 19:31, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I did not get that either. Nsk92 (talk) 19:34, 7 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment The potential for vandalism in this one is obvious, but the main point is, as Tenpound says, who would look here? Wouldn't it be easier to type in "APLC" in the search box if you didn't know what the APLC was?  Mandsford (talk) 14:51, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - If we can have List of environmental organizations and List of acronyms and initialisms, then why not this? -- Wavelength (talk) 00:41, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - According to the article "List of acronyms and initialisms", a pseudo-blend is "an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words)." According to the article "Blend": "In linguistics, a blend is a word formed from parts of two other words. These parts are sometimes, but not always, morphemes."
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 02:03, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
 * This is getting interesting. I see that in the linked article, but I don't think I see a source backing it up and seems to contradict that assertion. We may have a whole other problem on our hands at that article, but of course that is a seperate discussion not related to AfD. Beeblbrox (talk) 03:36, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment - I used Wikipedia's search function in a search for "acronyms" and I found the following.
 * (with the "Go" button)


 * Acronyms for market segments --> Terms for market segments
 * Acronyms in healthcare
 * Acronyms in microscopy
 * Acronyms in the Philippines
 * Acronyms of Laser Physics and Technology --> Laser acronyms
 * (with the "Search" button)


 * Recursive acronym
 * Three-letter acronym
 * List of U.S. Army acronyms and expressions
 * List of U.S. Navy acronyms
 * Oil field acronyms
 * Pseudo-acronym
 * List of astronomy acronyms
 * Glossary of military abbreviations
 * List of government and military acronyms
 * List of waste management acronyms
 * European Union Acronyms, Jargon and Working Practices
 * List of medical abbreviations: Overview
 * List of Indonesian acronyms and abbreviations
 * List of acronyms used in arts and crafts
 * List of U.S. Marine Corps acronyms and expressions
 * Law enforcement jargon
 * List of business and finance abbreviations
 * Vehicle acronyms and abbreviations
 * List of Singapore abbreviations
 * List of dosage abbreviations
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 07:41, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok now we're getting way off the topic of the AfD. Beeblbrox (talk) 15:40, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * On the contrary, this is not off the topic, because I am showing that Wikipedia has other lists of acronyms. (They are useful, and they are not especially prone to vandalism.)  Also, those lists are not superfluous to these lists.
 * List of marketing topics
 * Lists of health topics
 * List of Philippine-related topics
 * List of laser types
 * List of basic astronomy topics
 * List of waste management topics
 * List of European Union-related topics
 * List of Indonesia-related topics
 * List of basic visual arts topics
 * List of basic crafts topics
 * List of basic law enforcement topics
 * Topical outline of business
 * List of finance topics
 * List of basic finance topics
 * List of basic economics topics
 * List of basic vehicles topics
 * List of transport topics
 * List of Singapore-related topics
 * In like manner, List of environmental organizations by acronym, initialism, or pseudo-blend is not superfluous to List of environmental organizations.
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 21:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment - Before I started List of environmental organizations by acronym, initialism, or pseudo-blend, I was preparing to start an article List of environmental acronyms (which I still might start eventually), but when I discovered that many of them involved environmental organizations, I decided to list them separately. If the title is too long or too strange, it can be changed to something shorter and more familar, such as List of environmental organizations by abbreviation.


 * Its usefulness is not limited to helping people find names of environmental organizations and articles about them. Yes, it is true that one can more easily find the full name of "APLC" by using the search box.  But this list is much more helpful when people want to examine many environmental organizations' acronyms together.  I can think of two kinds of situations where one might want to do that.  In the first, one may simply be interested, from a linguistic perspective, in examining patterns and tendencies in choosing names and acronyms for environmental organizations.  In the second, one may be about to start an environmental organization and want to avoid choosing an acronym already in use for another environmental organization or an acronym too easily confused with one already in use.  For both those kinds of situations, a list of such acronyms and names on one page is definitely helpful and not superfluous.
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 17:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)


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