Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of hectomillionaires


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The result was delete. PeaceNT 17:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

List of hectomillionaires

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Probable neologism. I can't find any indication that this is a commonly used term. The two references in this article do NOT use the term. A Google search only brings up various blogs and discussion pages where people speculate that such a term should exist 23skidoo 19:30, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Additional: It should also be noted that a "Hectomillionaires" category also exists at present, which I recommend be nominated for deletion under both my rationale above and that given by some of the voters below; however that is a discussion for CFD, not here. 23skidoo 14:12, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Category is currently listed at Categories for discussion/Log/2007 October 10. --Allen3 talk 15:18, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete hectmillionaire is so NN that the article links back to this list. Mystache 20:15, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Not for neologism, it is not (hectomillionaire is a compoundword), but because a hundred millions bucks is small change.--Victor falk 21:29, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. It's possible I misunderstand the meaning of the word neologism. I assumed it to mean a coined term that has little-to-no cachet outside a very small demographic. In that context I'm alleging that the term simply isn't one that is used in any wide sense, enough for it to be worthy of an article, much less a list (and I could have also nominated it based upon its failings as a list, too, as already flagged by some of the other comments in this AFD). 23skidoo 14:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment People pretty much don't say "hecto-" anything, or "deka-" anything. We skip straight from grams to kilograms, meters to kilometers, watts to kilowatts.  We talk about a 10K instead of a 100 H.  Call it a list of "multimillionaires" and if someone who has only $98,000,000 objects about not being on the list, do a Jim Backus impersonation.  Mandsford 23:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Note that lists of millionaires (and equivalent categories) are normally deleted on WP for several reasons - 1) verifiability of wealth claims; 2) fluctuating exchange rates make it difficult to assess individual wealth; 3) - most importantly - a millionaire in one currency isn't necessarily a millionaire in another currency. Hell, if we were using the black-market rate for current Zimbabwean dollars, I'd be a hectomillionaire, and I'd also be a millionaire in Japanese yen. In old Turkish currency (pre 2004) I'd have been a multi-billionaire (and so would many other Wikipedians!). Grutness...wha?  01:22, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete due to expansive and unmaintainable nature of the list. Even if restricted to a single major currency such as US$ or EUR, qualifying levels for this list are well below the level of personal wealth needed to insure verifiability and constant fluctuations in various financial markets makes meaningful estimates transient at best.  Differences in exchange rates highlighted by Grutness also expands the list of qualifying individuals to the point where Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information applies. --Allen3 talk 02:36, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism, unneeded (people in a restricted range of net worth?). JJL 13:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Grutness -- Magioladitis 13:17, 12 October 2007 (UTC)


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