Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Everett Smith

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash^talk 00:10, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Everett Smith

Not notable, only claim to notability is that he may have coined a word. No real biography in the article either, only a summary of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis--Carabinieri 14:38, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep It needs expansion, but coining a word does make him notable. Logophile 17:46, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It's not when there's already a perfectly fine word for the disease which is in common use. This isn't used. I'll quote from the article on the word.

that the word was a neologism invented in 1935 by Everett M. Smith, president of the National Puzzlers' League, as an example of a theoretical word that might one day enter use if trends in medical word coinage were to continue. Research into the body of medical literature prior to his usage in 1935 have never successfully shown that the word existed prior to his coinage.

The actual name of the disease is pneumoconiosis. The article is listed as a hoax as well. That's 4 reasons not to have this stay around. - Mgm|^(talk) 18:44, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

• merge and redirect to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis unless there is more biographical information to include. This word is pretty famous, so this meets my notability standards. — brighterorange (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep if anything biograhical can be found, else merge and redirect - Very famous word (and my personal favourite).
• Keep even though I'm annoyed that he added the "microscopic" part, otherwise it could have been siung to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Grutness...wha? 01:02, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Wow. Normally a person who "may have coined a word" would be quite nn. But the act of its coining was itself what made the word notable, and this fellow's position was significant (presumably) to its acquiring widespread-among-word-geeks notability. The AP guy (or UPI or a broadcast network or whoever) wouldn't have picked it up if it had been just some guy in his den writing a letter to a write-a-funky-word contest or something. Weak keep; this is just on the edge of Importance policy but several editors above are saying "famous", so hopefully they'll find more verifiable details to accomplish "sofixit". Barno 06:10, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Please remember Wikipedia:Importance isn't policy. Keep ··gracefool |☺ 17:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
• Definite keep - notable both for neologism and for being president of the puzzlers' league at a time when puzzles were far more of a popular pasttime than they are today. Could add a request for expansion. Vizjim 13:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

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