Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Infoshop

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The result of the debate was keep. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:18, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Infoshop

Neologism/dicdef for a book shop or website distributing anarchist literature. Seems to mainly an ad for www.infoshop.org, which is an Alexa rank 82,000 web site. Delete --BM 01:58, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Advertising based neologism? Oy vey! --InShaneee 02:55, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep As noted, infoshops are well established around the world (for instance, see List of infoshops). The existence of many infoshops predates the registration of infoshop.org by decades. A Google search for "anarchist infoshop" yields 28,000 results even when you exclude infoshop.org. Please note that the original version of this article (created by myself) did not mention infoshop.org. Finally, I agree that this article needs to be further expanded in order to move beyond the scope of a dictionary definition and I will help work on that. --Nihila 05:54, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, neologism, website advertisement. Megan1967 06:23, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep; what is the basis for claiming neologism? I don't believe the term is terribly new... -- Jmabel | Talk 07:52, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Maybe it's a paleologism, but it's still an ad. Oh, and while we're at it please delete List of infoshops as well, as that further substantiates the ad. Radiant! 09:01, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. A typical cleanup case. Mikkalai 09:48, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as an article about anarchist bookshops, include a list of countires where there are infoshops to keep some of the infomation from the List of infoshops --nixie 12:27, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, clean-up, no apparent reason for VfD listing. Dan100 12:52, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Nominations should not be made without research unless the article is nonsense. This term is common in the UK, though not primarily for this purpose. Wincoote 14:41, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. It may not be a neologism, but it is still just a dicdef of a slang term. The factoid that for some strange reason, anarchists call their bookshops "infoshops" is not encyclopedic or expandable. --BM 15:05, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Would transwikiing be a reasonable compromise? Radiant! 22:35, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

No. Wincoote 07:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. ComCat 08:50, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Considering the term has been around longer than desktop computers, yet many wiki articles are about obsure terms that deal w/ gamers or internet culture related topics, the neologism/slang argument makes no sense. And enough with the bookstore bit, an infoshop is not a GD bookstore. Bookstores sell books, infoshops act as hubs for the exchange of information (before the internet, and for those without internet, an infoshop was/is one of the most efficent forms for communicating ideas to an entire community). millerc 04:11, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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