Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mome raths


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The result was   redirect to Jabberwocky. JForget 00:22, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Mome raths

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Contested prod. Lacks references. Doesnt appear to be an encyclopedic subject. RadioFan (talk) 12:37, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as nom. Falls foul of WP:NOTDICTIONARY.  Favonian (talk) 12:44, 28 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete C'mon, it's a pair of nonsense words that Lewis Carroll used. Fails WP:N, unlike, say, Jabberwock, which has actually gained notoriety of its own. Ray  Talk 12:47, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Jabberwock. Nonsense words, but famous nonsense words; plausible search terms shouldn't be redlinks.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  14:10, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Jabberwocky, which has a pertinent section discussing the use of things from the poem in popular media. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 14:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete with a vorpal blade. Snicker-snack.  Mandsford (talk) 15:05, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions.  -- – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 18:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Jabberwocky. Yes, it's two words in a nonsense poem... but with a couple pages of Google Scholar results. I wouldn't be opposed to someone using those as a starting point to make this into a proper, cited article, either. Jclemens (talk) 18:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Obvious search term.  Good heavens, why would we delete this?  Powers T 20:37, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can see adding an entry for Carroll's raths to the Rath dab page (linking to Jabberwocky), but this doesn't need a stand-alone article. Deor (talk) 20:49, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. Olaf Davis (talk) 09:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Jabberwocky as a quite plausible search term. ReverendWayne (talk) 22:41, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect. Even after some uffish thought on those GS hits I'm doubtful there's enough to make even the mimsiest of full articles, but it's a very plausible search term. It's hardly a manxome drain on the servers to keep as a redirect, and it might help someone who's a bit mome themselves. Olaf Davis (talk) 09:14, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Jabberwock. Edward321 (talk) 14:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect It is already there, where these green pigs who have lost their way, can bellow and whistle with a sneeze in the middle.
 * Mome – Possibly short for "from home," meaning that the raths had lost their way.[4]
 * Outgrabe (past tense; present tense outgribe) – Something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle.[4][11]
 * Rath – A sort of green pig.[4] (See Origin and structure for further details.)

 D r e a m Focus  06:30, 31 July 2009 (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.