Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Metagrobology

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 21:46, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Metagrobology
Dictionary def, with only 4 google hits. I'd say offer it to wiktionary but I'm not sure they'd want it because I'm not sure it's a real word. Dictionary.com has no definitions for it. RJFJR 05:48, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment not sure about Metagrobology (looks like someone just made up this word) but the study of puzzles is more commonly known as Enigmatology. I guess this article could be rewritten, renamed and transwikied to Wiktionary as there is currently no entry for Enigmatology. Megan1967 08:50, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * There is now: enigmatology. I suggest as a general principle that we do not construct dictionary articles in Wikipedia with the aim of giving them to Wiktionary.  It is my experience that this does not work.  In my experience, Wiktionary (with suitable prompting) can come up with dictionary articles from scratch in days that are far better than what Wikipedia can grow in months or even (in some cases) years. Uncle G 12:25, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
 * Wiktionary would classify this as a protologism. If you think that people will look up the term, Redirect to enigmatology, where this subject is already (not) covered.  Otherwise Delete, since there is nothing of encyclopaedic value to retain. Uncle G 12:25, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
 * Comment, well if this is a neologism I'm not sure a redirect would be appropriate since it is a "made up" word. Megan1967 06:27, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I am the original writer of this article. I thought it was worth adding as it does appear from time to time in my trade (puzzles). The eminent David Singmaster always calls himself a metagrobologist, and "metagrobologist" gets 194 hits on Google, not 4.


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