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[edit] The Apparent Redirect from List of neologisms on The Colbert Report

Well... it was an AfD and there was no consensus about what should be done... Then it gets redirected to here. Like it wasn't even merged or anything useful -- just a redirect and after someone put up 4 words from the larger list that this has apparently taken the place of. I'm stating my intention to either copy and merge the entire list as it was under the former article or remove the redirect and then put up a possible merger scenario. Anyone want to give me their opinion on what they think is best? MrMacMan 05:20, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

* My Explanation of my edit Alright people... I was probably a little speedy with decision to manually edit the old list of neo and manually 'merge' them into this article. I deleted some content, I tried to put better wiki-links, I kept the picture because it refers to 2 of the neologisms. I tried to shorten some of the definitions from the list so I could make sure I didn't take up a more significant amount of this page. I tried to keep the definitions as concise as possible (I felt wikilobbying needed to be explained in greater depth). I chose not to flush out Lincolnish, superstantial, and freem because other than Lincolnish it seemed like they were defined well enough and with Lincolnish it is very easy to understand what that word implies. I know I was probably a little too hasty and should have waited for other users to chime in with their feelings, but please talk on this page and tell me what you think about the changes. Thanks. MrMacMan 19:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but the result was no concensus, and the person who redirected it shouldn't have redirected it since there was no consensus. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but there was no proposed merge tag on Truthiness, and since one of the things that was being proposed as part of the Afd was a merge of at least part of the article to here, there should have been a tag on the article, letting people who watch this article know about that discussion. That list really doesn't belong on this article. I'm going to undo your changes (sorry), and undo the redirect and post a lengthy comment there as well. But good job on catching the redirct without anything to redirect to.Miss Mondegreen 01:29, 16 February 2007 (UTC)