Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Namechecking

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 of the debate was No consensus. Deathphoenix ʕ 15:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Namechecking

Nonnotable neologism. It had previously been tagged with {{prod}} but the tag was removed and replaced with an "unreferenced" tag. Referenced or not, I don't see the notability here. Powers 17:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This can be easily covered in Product placement. Alr 18:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep as deprodder. I think that this is a sufficiently different concept to product placement to deserve its own article; product placement involves a definite transaction between the advertiser and the entertainer, whereas namechecking is done entirely "voluntarily" - the ubiquity, of, say, Cristal champagne within a certain genre of music isn't because Cristal's manufacturer has given any sort of reward to rap artists, which (as I see it) moves it out of the ambit of product placement. However, I agree that the article requires references to prove that "Namechecking" is the established term for this phenomenon. If such references aren't forthcoming, I would support the article's deletion. Tevildo 19:10, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Fair enough, though I still contend that it's a nonnotable phenomenon. Brand names have been in songs for as long as there's been brand names. =) Powers 19:30, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep per Tevildo Artw 19:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but remove the list as it could go on forever. The article itself could be expanded, perhaps with a (referenced) history of namechecking. Danny Lilithborne 00:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Article has been without references since created. WP:VERIFY. Paul Cyr 00:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete seems like a dicdef to me at the moment. Inner Earth 18:38, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but expand the list and article. Thankyoubaby 17:37, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, the terms are "product placement", "name dropping" and whatever the term for using brand names in the place of generic is called (like ping pong). This is just a neologism. -- Kjkolb 15:35, 6 July 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.