Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/25 New Ivies

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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. - Philippe 05:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 25 New Ivies

25 New Ivies (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

A neologism, no sources other than the one that coined the neologism. Guy (Help!) 11:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Speedy Delete per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New Ivies. Sorry, I was going to speedy this a little while ago, but decided to watch and see what happened. The term is still in common usage among the schools who were awarded the title, however overall I do not believe it is notable enough for an article. It also qualifies as "Academic Boosterism". The term is mentioned on the Ivy League page as an example of an "Other Ivies", which I believe is enough for Wikipedia. Danski14(talk) 17:30, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Nominator states "This is a term that appeared in an article in Newsweek magazine LAST WEEK." Almost every person who voted for "delete" also included the phrase "per nom." As one of the major (if not the major) reason for deletion was that the term was barely a week old, and that is no longer the case, we should disregard the previous AfD on this topic. Coanda-1910 (talk) 22:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete as insufficiently established. But I think New ivies is sufficiently established by now and that a suitable article could be written on it. DGG (talk) 02:45, 12 April 2008 (UTC)


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