Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Wikipornia

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Comment: First of all, I suppose the fact is that the people of CollegeHumor.com will continue to use the phrase in their website whether Wikipedia confirms its legitimacy as a "word" or not foreshadows its eventual protologism status. Keep in mind, the neologism "Wikipedia" itself has been coined and accepted by popular usage. Granted, when broken down "Wiki," meaning internet-based, changable web material, and "pedia" which is taken directly from "encyclopedia," the last part of which refers to the greek "paideia," meaning "Education," shows that the word is based on some form of educated thought rather than a crass and clumsy conglomeration such as "Wikipornia". Nevertheless, most will argue that "porn" has "realistic evidence of existence via verifiable usage data" while "ia" is merely the suffix to form a noun adopted from the greek--hence "Wikipornia" actually works by default. Thus, though the word screams "Drunk college idiots," many of them still have a brain during most of the week and can confirm the word's "evidence of existance". Do what you want with it, but the facts are quite clear. Seanny O