Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of miscellaneous portmanteaus


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was DELETE. Rje 15:32, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

List of miscellaneous portmanteaus
It's huge! It's growing! It's a maintenance nightmare! Coming soon to a 'pedia near you, a list of all the made-up words fashioned by cobbling together two other words (i.e. every other advertising slogan since about 1978). Contains duplicates, apparently. I lost the will to live about halfway down. Oh, and it looks like original research too. Just zis Guy you know? 12:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Dr Zak 13:10, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete If it belongs anywhere, it belongs in a dictionary not an encyclopaedia. Paddles 13:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - CrazyRussian talk/contribs/email 14:36, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vizjim 14:38, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikitionary, perhaps? +Hexagon1 (talk) [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|30px]] 14:55, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - unmaintainable and unencyclopaedic. - Jjjsixsix (t)/(c) @ 05:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, but remove all portmanteaux that do not have articles. (There are a lot of blue links there.) — Cuivi é  nen  T, Tuesday, 16 May 2006 @ 19:40 UTC
 * Delete extreme example of listcruft. "Miscellaneous"? Come on... LjL 14:44, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - and massive cleanup - I haven't gone through all the terms, but the definitions for rovibronic and vibronic are correct in the list - in fact, it was the only place on Wikipedia which defined these terms properly! I have references for these terms from the literature. The others simply need factchecking, although those are better relegated to others. --HappyCamper 20:31, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe they are only here because they are dicdefs? Did you try Wiktionary? Just zis Guy you know? 11:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Since Cuiviénen wants to get rid of portmanteaus without an article; I suggest to Make more portmanteau subcategories since it would make sense to have categories as lists of articles rather than an article which is a list exclusively of articles. --Nintendude 09:24, 19 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.