Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Self Generated George Fact

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There are 2 problems with the argument "we can't find any evidence of the term's widespread usage":

1. At some point in the history of every word/phrase only one person used the word or phrase and there existed no widespread evidence of the term's usage. Consider, "If the shoe fits, wear it." The term is fairly common, but at one point it wasn't. It was at the time of it's inception a term with a concrete meaning none the less. SGGF has a concrete meaning and we established its meaning. It is a very real thing and a very real phrase. We are the sources, right here. We've verified the term's existence.

2. Saying, "because we can't find it being used on the internet", seems silly because the users of the term are all in graduate school or work full time jobs. They don't have time to sit around blogging their daily lives. It's only now that I've turned in all my term papers that I've got time to type anything. Now, consider that the people we are most likely to spread the term too are our classmates and coworkers who are all just as busy as we are, and what you see is a term whos "target audience" is a non-blogging community. Perhaps if we were all 10 years younger, or all dot com wizards the situation would be different.