Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horked

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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 of the debate was delete. -- ( drini's vandalproof page ☎ ) 06:42, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Horked

Neologism, linked site explains that this is a made-up word. --Alan Au 23:48, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

  • All words are "made up". The question is, is the word useful and used by people. Google references 36,000 web pages that use horked. It's pretty clear that it's being used a lot. In limiting the results to US Government sites I found "horked boot disk". HUGS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.1.49 (talk • contribs) 2005-11-08 23:58:06 UTC
  • Wikipedia is not a dictionary. It's an encyclopaedia. Articles here are about people/concepts/events/places/things, not about words. The dictionary is over there. Per our Wikipedia:naming conventions (verbs) and Wikipedia:naming conventions (adjectives), this would at most be a redirect to an article on the concept of software bugs. However, I'm not completely convinced that this would be a useful redirect. Weak Delete. Uncle G 00:20, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per Uncle G, noting also that the article missed the variant definition "stole," and that the preceding unsigned comment was from the same IP as the article's creator/principle editor. --Kgf0 00:25, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I agree, this would be better moved to Wiktionary. It is amusing, to me, to note that words are "things" and so the above definition about what separates wikipedia from wiktionary is slightly arbitrary. A clearer discription is that wikipedia is for proper nouns, I think. -- Sign me, the same idiot that made the entry.
    • Not necessarily; see chair for a reasonably well-written counterexample. --Kgf0 08:39, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, dictdef. I don't think it'll make a useful redirect, either. And Wiktionary already has hork, so there's no point in a transwiki. —Cryptic (talk) 01:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom --Rogerd 04:25, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete nnn. Klonimus 05:42, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete neologism Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] :: AfD? 12:13, 9 November 2005 (UTC)


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.