Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Personating


 * 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 deletionate. DS 21:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Personating
Colbert neologism. This is nothing like the scale of truthiness; Wikipedia is not an almanac of television comedy gags. &mdash;ptk✰fgs 06:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Isn't there a new WØRD (practically) every night? How many articles will this run to? --Dhartung | Talk 07:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Forever. I nominated a piece of Colbertcruft not too long ago. The response was ... unpleasant. --Aaron 16:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Note to posters from the author: Thank you for regulating
 * Delete per nom. OBM | blah blah blah 07:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The entire contents of this article are original research, a novel meaning, invented 2 days ago by one person, for an existing word. Wikipedia is not for things made up by Colbert one day..  The joke is on Colbert and the Wikipedia editors who blindly add xyr jokes to Wikipedia, however, because "personate" (at least one of its several senses) and "impersonate" are synonyms, not antonyms.  There's nothing worth saving here. Redirect to personation per our Naming conventions (verbs). Uncle G 11:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to List of neologisms on The Colbert Report (which needs improvement).  Ultra-Loser  Talk / Contributions 11:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I strongly object to a verb that has been around since 1590 redirecting to an article on one person's neologisms, when there's already a perfectly good article on the action that the verb actually denotes. Uncle G 11:21, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Personate was already a word before Colbert decided to change its meaning for his own use. (I have nothing against Colbert, but I thought he was more literate than that. IIRC, Shakespeare uses 'personate'.) --Charlene.fic 14:28, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Uncle G. --Aaron 16:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per author. Content has been relocated to List of neologisms on The Colbert Report. 12:40, 18 October 2006 (PST).
 * 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.