Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yankee Belt


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The result was   delete. Jayjg (talk) 01:31, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Yankee Belt

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non-notable neologism Ironholds (talk) 17:42, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, yep, neologism. No relevant definitions in reliable sources, that I can see.  Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:05, 1 January 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete Based on the available sources listed above in the GScholar search, the article is wrong: JC Hudson - Journal of Cultural Geography, 1984 " has " All of these principles were embodied in the Yankee belt, stretching from southern Michigan to western Minnesota." and all other sources there and in G News archive agree. . I can find zero uses in this sense outside Wikipedia, even in google.  I think the article may have been nom without a search, because this is substantially worse than just nn neologism     DGG ( talk ) 01:54, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * There was a search, yes; I didn't use google scholar, it has to be said, I normally use the standard search, news and books functions. Ironholds (talk) 01:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree there was no a priori reason to suspect that G Scholar would be particularly relevant here--though with the Googles it is somewhat unpredictable, but even the first item in GBooks has "So are some of the Yankee Belt locations of coastal Maine and rural New [England]" & the 4th has "the great Yankee belt stretching across the Northern country, through New York, Ohio, Michigan, westward, " .    DGG ( talk ) 03:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not picking those up; either it's the whole different-country-accessing-google thing or I need to fiddle with my settings. I'll see if I can loosen up how my options treat search results, since I can't do anything about the former. Ironholds (talk) 04:02, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I know what's up. In Europe, Google Books does not include snippets from in-copyright books without explicit permission. Judging by recent unfortunate developments in France, this situation may last indefinitely. Possibly the only work-around is a US proxy.    DGG ( talk ) 06:10, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Bugger. Ahh well, at least that explains why I couldn't see anything. Ironholds (talk) 06:16, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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