Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Autocentrism

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 Delete - crz crztalk 05:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] autocentrism

Autocentrism (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Looks like a new definition for an old word to me, but I have sufficient doubt about this to send it here instead of ProDding it. --Jemiller226 04:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

It also has another meaning, but if you have read new urbanist literature or even done a google search, you'll find the term in common acceptance for its modern meaning.--Loodog 05:13, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I did a Google search and looked through the first 6 pages of hits or so (so, about 60 of the 104 current useful hits), and all of the listings I saw were either in a language I couldn't understand or they dealt with the "old" definition of autocentrism, which is basically a more general version of the word Eurocentrism. Doing a google define on the word came up totally empty. This absolutely screams neologism, and basically by saying that it comes from new urbanist literature, you prove as much. --Jemiller226 20:19, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

It's not as if wikipedia has an anti-neologism policy. There's wigger, metrosexual, e-mail, etc...--Loodog 00:14, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

Technically, you're right. It's a guideline, not a policy. In this case, since there are so few incidences of this definition of the word on the Internet, the word is a protologism. "An editor's personal observations and research (e.g. finding blogs and books that use the term) are insufficient to support use of (or articles on) neologisms because this is analysis and synthesis of primary source material (which is explicitly prohibited by the original research policy)." --Jemiller226 23:53, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - only 254 ghits. Transwikiing to Wiktionary is an alternate solution. MER-C 07:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Can anyone verify the source is reliable or find scientific journals using the term? - Mgm|^(talk) 12:04, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to car-free movement or delete, since the source is obviously about that, and the definition given seems to be related to it (it's an antonym, but still...) --Interiot 22:49, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

• You can find this with an advanced google search. Does that count?

• Similar searches for autocentric are somewhat less successful.

• When searched with "urban" the results are consistent for the "modern" meaning.--Loodog 02:15, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Give us some decent references and I'll reconsider. WMMartin 16:29, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

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