Talk:Mosaic Generation

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I have a hard time seeing how this article meets the standards at Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms. Care to explain why we should keep it under this guideline? GRBerry 21:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

I should first say say I'm totally not affiliated with Barna, the person who coined the term, and I'm not out to try to promote it. I don't think it's a particularly good term, I don't especially believe his conclusions about the generation in question, and I don't think it's particularly widespread outside of a certain subculture. I just stumbled across it in an Amazon.com user review of a book, and when wikipedia didn't have an explaination, it took me a little bit of reading to understand the concept, so I thought I'd add a paragraph or two on it for the next person in my situation.

In regards to the specifics of that guideline: a) its usage, however limited, is definitely verifiable and not my original research-- the cited links are newpapers (or something similar) that talk about the term and what it means. And I just added a paper from some university that discusses the term.

I think it might be useful to keep an article around on the term, mostly because I wanted there to be one on the term earlier today. But, if you disagree-- I'm not too attached to the article :). If you do do a delete, though, you might transfer the text to George Barna and set up a redirect so people can find it.

--Alecmconroy 00:17, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I have the George Barna article on my watchlist, which is how I saw this at all ;). That new paper shows it is used by more than just him. But I'd guess it is a protologism. I am, however, an eventualist, so I'm not going to act any time soon. GRBerry 00:43, 16 June 2006 (UTC)