Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Browning of America

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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge and redirect to Richard Rodriguez --- Deville (Talk) 01:12, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Browning of America

• del nonnotable neologism. `'mikka (t) 01:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This content belongs in the article for Richard Rodriguez, and not in a seperate article. --EndlessVince 01:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable enough. Alternatively, merge & redirect. --Lambiam^Talk 01:54, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Neologism. A mention on Richard Rodriguez is plenty. Buckner 1986 05:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not encyclopedic MiracleMat 09:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or merge with Richard Rodriguez. Perhaps the title, referring to Charles A. Reich's The Greening of America, is too clever by half, but this was apparently given publicity on PBS. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:12, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, per reasons above. Ramsquire 18:55, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Worst. Neologism. Ever. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 21:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Theu standards for neologisms are at WP:NEO. Relevantly, it says that before we have an article about a neologism, we need reliable sources that are about the term, not just that use it. Here, we have no sources, so we don't meet the standards at WP:NEO. As someone else has reminded me, we generally should not merge unsourced material. GRBerry 02:04, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
  • What is "this was apparently given publicity on PBS"? Kappa 06:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per Smerdis. Does appear to be sourced.
• Keep Yes, if you mix all the different paint colours together in art class, you'll get a gloopy sickly brown rather than a magical rainbowy colour. It's one of the saddest but truest moments of childhood. Ridiculous sounding and badly conceived neologism, but unfortunately a google search suggests that it has entered mainstream discourse. Bwithh 02:00, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Herm. apparently the phrase "the browning of the Church" has also been doing the rounds (though not at critical mass yet). glurk. Bwithh 02:10, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep or merge – Alensha  ^talk 18:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - this is a clear delete. Without independent sourcing neologisms are not encyclopaedic. BlueValour 21:52, 11 September 2006 (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.