Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Puffer thief

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 02:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Puffer thief
This was marked as after it was Transwikied to Wiktionary. The problems it has are that the claims made in it are unverified, and its importance is questioned. A comment made on its talk page says, "Some of the information came from a police officer I personally know, research on stolen cars, and from [a] newspaper article itself (the part I remembered). The officer I know did say he had never heard the term, but he also never worked in the area (Colorado/Denver) where the term seems to be used." Of course, there are no specific third party references to back this up. Zzyzx11 | Talk 02:11, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm the one that cleaned up the grammar/POV and applied the tags. The problem of running cars getting stolen is certainly real, but the term "puffer thief" is a neologism. Merge into Motor vehicle theft, but don't refer to "puffer thief" at all. android&harr;talk 02:17, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. --Carnildo 20:24, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Neologism. Master Thief Garrett 03:08, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Megan1967 06:14, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism.  Can't even find references to it on google. Tobycat 00:48, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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