Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of neologisms on The Colbert Report (2)


 * 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 was No consensus. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-11 05:59Z 

List of neologisms on The Colbert Report

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We all know that Stephen Colbert is the most important and influential human who ever lived, and that his pearls of wisdom rival those of Ghandi, his put-downs surpass those of Wilde and Beecham, and every word he utters is peerless prose to be cherished for ever, but nonetheless I don't think we need an article for things made up on the Colbert Report one day. Seriously, this stuff belongs on Wikiality ("the truthiness encyclopaedia") not here. Guy (Help!) 07:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note Prevous Afd in September 2006. Result was no concensus. WJBscribe 07:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete I'm lost for words and we should certainly lose these. An indisctiminate and pointless list of single source neologisms - Peripitus (Talk) 07:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NEO. These are non-notable neologisms, putting them together in a list doesn't help. Verifiable impartial sources about the words (not just mentioning them) are required. And I completely agree that things made up on the Colbert Report one day do not require an article to themselves. Fortunately. WJBscribe 07:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I think truthiness is the only one with any real notability... and it has its own article already. If any of the others bear mentioning, a line or two in The Colbert Report will cover this. Out!!! --Brianyoumans 07:56, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fancruft. fraggle 09:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with the main article on this show. The fact the show has coined phrases like truthiness is verifiable, but not every one of the neologisms used have become notable. Pick some of the most frequently used and make a subsection of the article on the show. 23skidoo 13:49, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with Truthiness. Some of these are notable (see Wikiality, Factiness), though the list does need pruning. Cheers, Lankybugger 17:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete his fanzombies are on notice. JuJube 19:32, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 01:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete this is just too arbitrary, because the Great Colbert coins too many terms to determine which are worthy of an entry.-- danntm T C 02:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with truthiness. Edison 05:49, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Colbert regularly coins so many non-notable neologisms that a list is pointless; the only notable ones, "truthiness" and "wikiality", are already described elsewhere. Krimpet 14:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge as required and then redirect. Mathmo Talk 13:03, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Colbertcruft. AgentPeppermint 22:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge I mean... its nice to have a list and everyone... truthiness and everything... I dunno. Someone convince me that this list isn't useful. MrMacMan 06:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete sheesh. Just because Colbert is top of mind to many WP editors does not mean everything on the show should be in an encyclopedia. &mdash; MrDolomite | Talk 15:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete dposse 15:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, per the many other examples of "List of neologisms coined in X show/book/other". There seems to be a lot of comments voting to delete that hint at some kind of personal disagreement with Colbert or his politics, and we should be careful not to make a decision as to the worthiness of the article on that basis. --Sanguinus 18:40, 10 February 2007 (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.