Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mind worm

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. No compelling reason for either redirect target, but there is clearly a consensus here that the current content doesn't belong here. (ESkog)^(Talk) 06:02, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mind worm

This is a neologism for earworm --BennyD 02:45, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to earworm --NMChico24 02:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:NEO. No one's going to search for this. --Coredesat 03:13, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per above Nuttah68 09:49, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Mindworm. —Lamentation :( 11:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to earworm, but with a note on earworm that "Mind worm redirects here. For the comic character, see Mindworm." Armedblowfish (talk|mail|contribs) 21:25, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Absent any reliable source that the word sees signficant use in this sense, as opposed to simply being made up in school one day as I strongly suspect, it shouldn't redirect to earworm. If I create an article at blu that states it's a machine that flies through the air, it gets either deleted or redirected to blue as a misspelling, but certainly not redirected to airplane. —Lamentation :( 06:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, The article can be expanded --Noobodier 23:46, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; there is already Mindworm and earworm and this adds nothing except the claim that "it seems to be some sort of synaptic short-circuit" which is ludicrously misleading since it suggests that this conjecture (obviously vastly oversimplified) constitutes established fact. ---CH 10:34, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Mindworm or Delete. This is not a real word with a similar meaning to earworm. In fact, the only evidence I found of its use as a word outside of aliens in computer games is[1]: "Mind Worm is a new word that I just made up...A Mind Worm is a lie that is constructed in such a way that it is mentally addictive and highly contagious...", etc. This is not the same meaning as ear worm. See also Lamentation's comment above. —Centrx→talk • 04:57, 1 July 2006 (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.