Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slackcountry

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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 merge and redirect. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 20:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Slackcountry

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I created this article and it was proposed for deletion. I understand that without good sources it appears as nothing more than a neologism. I am listing it for AfD because I wish the deletion to be discussed. The term slackcountry is quite common among skiers but it's hard to find online sources other than forum discussions. Here are a few possible options alternative to deletion:

  • Add sources (more reputable than online forums) to the article and keep
  • Merge into backcountry skiing along with other terms such as "frontcountry" and "sidecountry".

Billscottbob (talk) 20:23, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

  • Merge and redirect to backcountry skiing. The term fails WP:NEO; no reliable sources discussing/defining the term were found in a search of Google News Archive or Google Books (and there were only 1600 GHITs anyway). It just doesn't seem to have that much currency (yet). --Dhartung | Talk 21:51, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 12:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Backcountry skiing. A Newsbank.com search (they claim to have 1,900 sources) came up with nothing related to skiing, although a couple of reviews of country music (Chicago Tribune, Des Moines Register) used "slack country" (two words) in the context of country music connected to slackers. Noroton (talk) 21:10, 14 January 2008 (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.