Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yippie (lifestyle)


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 09:28, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Yippie (lifestyle)
ok not sure how this works but I have to say that the Yippie was a cultural movement in the 60's similar to Hippies but more towards the activist scale. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin were both Yippies. I have half a dozen books on the subject from the 60s. The term does not mean 'yuppie hippie'. -Ash —Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.141.35.109 (talk) 11:16, 23 November 2009 (UTC)


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Neologism. I was unable to find anything on Google News to suggest that any professional writer has used the term as defined here. The only thing I could find was the personal website used as the article's single "reference" and a couple of blogs. Change to dicdef. It took me a while to realize that this page wasn't our actual yippie page; as such, it just bleeds attention away from the actual, historical term. Father Goose (talk) 04:21, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete The 60s Yippie is culturally and historically significant. This is Wikipedia abuse in the guise of guerrilla marketing. DarkAudit (talk) 04:54, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per above reasons, and I suspect personally neologism. --Pstanton (talk) 06:19, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete urban dictionary lists this as a variant, but that is of course not a RS. google search of pages with yippie and yuppie is overwhelmingly in support of the single, traditional meaning of the term, often "yippies became yuppies" but not the reverse, or of hippies becoming yippies. of course, this may change in future, but this word is not in common use at this time.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 07:09, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Amended nomination: I was finally able to find two professional sources where the term was used with the meaning "yuppie hippie" (or thereabouts), though I still see little basis for more than a dicdef article here. I did add the "yuppie hippie" definition to yippie.--Father Goose (talk) 08:31, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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