Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Supra-celestial being


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The result was   delete. No transwiki. —  Xy7  (talk)  02:05, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Supra-celestial being

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Notability and Verifiability in question. I wanted to speedy delete the thing as nonsense but it is mentioned in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's work in passing and is not explained according to google scholar and google books. It garners 33 hits in google, mostly myspace and forums. Lenticel ( talk ) 00:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Possible Transwiki? It's a DICDEF, but wiktionary might be able to use this. The Man in the Rock (talk) 03:41, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * In fact that appears to be happening as I speak. The Man in the Rock (talk) 03:43, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know if Wiktionary accepts terms that have no RS to back's its use.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 04:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I take that back; I don't think they do either. The Man in the Rock (talk) 02:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete, no transwiki, no prejudice against recreation. As currently defined, there's nothing here that you couldn't easily intuit from the modifier "supra-" and the phrase "celestial being". If this is some sort of term of art, it can be recreated later with a more substantial definition. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 08:59, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete: No transwiki.  This is a coinage, and a nonsensical one at that.  Why not uberinfernal being, too, and ultraterrestrial being and subsublunary world?  Utgard Loki (talk) 13:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NEOLOGISM and WP:NOR Misterdiscreet (talk) 21:53, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Neologism?:) Sticky Parkin 23:27, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. Used in a handful of sources, some scholarly, apparently dating back to the 5th to 6th century Psuedo-Dionysius, but never with much in the way of definition or unifying theme.  I don't see anything that could be cited to allow this to move beyond dictionary definition, and of course the current state of the article only barely keeps its head above CSD A3. Serpent&#39;s Choice (talk) 23:39, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete According to ancient/medieval Christian cosmology, God, heaven, etc., existed beyond the stars, and hence were supercelestial (literally, above the stars). That observation is not enough for a whole article, but would be appropriate in a discussion of the broader topic of religious cosmology. I think, this article could be redirected to an article on that worldview, but I'm not sure what would be appropriate, so in the meantime I say delete instead. --SJK (talk) 08:02, 19 September 2008 (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.