Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sandpunk


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was DELETE. &mdash; J I P | Talk 18:23, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Sandpunk
Neologism, in the vein of Cyberpunk and Steampunk, only not actually in use. This article doesn't provide any citations of the term in use (or even much of a definition, as far as I can tell), Whatlinkshere is a wasteland, and Google turns up 46 unique uses of the term, most of which seem to be someone using "Sandpunk" as a user name. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 19:01, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete per nomination --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 19:12, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I'm at least a mild fan of this stuff, and I subscribe to Locus, and have never seen or heard the term used. MCB 00:25, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Me too, but I didn't want to nominate it with the exceedingly lame reason of "I've never heard of it." Bonus lack of notability note: Steampunk, which includes such silly "subgenres" as sandalpunk and stonepunk doesn't mention this. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 00:35, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

As the author of the article, I thought I should step up to the plate on this. The term is a neologism and in very small usage, but it still exists. It was coined in order to discuss a certain genre of fiction during classes in English at Memorial University of Newfoundland. I'm not sure if being in very small circulation is included in the criteria for deletion. There is no substitute word to describe the particular genre. It's not just a rewording of steam/cyberpunk and is more closely related to post-apocalyptic fiction, but isn't that either.

What may lead the article to deletion is the fact that it is simply a definition, and for this I apologise. I was intending on adding an exploration of the history of sandpunk, as well as a list of properties and stories that fall under term, but thought I'd start with a simple definition and see how people took it, particularly in discussion on the somewhat related steampunk entry. Whether the article should be expanded upon or moved to wiktionary, I don't know. --Spectre general 23:27, 6 October 2005 (UTC)


 * The term is a neologism and in very small usage, but it still exists. Wikipedia is not the place for original research or neologisms. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 11:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete, unused neologism. -Sean Curtin 19:29, 9 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.