Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slowflation


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The result was   redirect to Stagflation. –MuZemike 00:00, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Slowflation

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Neologism. No evidence of notability, no external sources provided. LK (talk) 10:07, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete': The term is rarely if ever used in published academic economics. This search of JSTOR's collections of published academic articles (including economics) does not find any use of it. "Stagflation" (which shows up in 4300 JSTOR  articles in an analogous search) covers the condition of "slowflation."  Looking ahead, I don't think the use of "slowflation" would make discussion of economic conditions more concise or clear. -- Econterms (talk) 16:47, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep: I came into this thinking "Delete: wikipedia is not urbandictionary". However, an idle google revealed several relatively reliable-looking lay sources out there ( &c) and wordspy even dissects it for us:  so I think we can establish some notability. I don't think there can be much doubt about the accuracy of the definition because it's pretty trivial. This word may rarely pass the lips of academic economists, but - alas! - they do not have a monopoly on vocabulary; barriers to entry are low. bobrayner (talk) 23:53, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Righto on that last point. Didn't mean that the term needed to clear that hurdle to merit an article.  Nobody wants to see human communication filtered to include only the phrasings used in economics journals. (Except maybe in some kind of grim comedy.)   But the question had been raised on the talk and economics project pages whether the term was used in the academic context, and this was answerable.  Judgments about notability now depend completely on these other sources. -- Econterms (talk) 16:27, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wiktionary just a dicdef at the moment. 76.66.200.95 (talk) 06:18, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Redirect to Stagflation. The difference between "Stagflation" and "Slowflation" is subtle, basically the same principle, and the terms should be considered as part of a single article, listed under the far more recognizable name. "Slowflation" is a neologism without much of a following, it would seem. Carrite (talk) 20:20, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, redirect per Carrite. This is an unfamiliar but definitely extant neologism—just the sort of thing that an encyclopaedia user might wish to look up.  We ought to have something more helpful than a redlink, but I also agree that a separate article is not justified.— S Marshall  T/C 21:38, 26 October 2010 (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.