Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Subterrestrial

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. --Coredesat 05:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subterrestrial

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This is effectively a neologism being used to describe planets that are the size of Mercury and Mars. The term is generally not used this way within astronomy as revealed by a search through my textbooks, Google, and the ADS Abstract Service. The article contains no references to verify that it is a term that is in use. The article contains nothing of value; it should be deleted. Dr. Submillimeter 10:43, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per Wikipedia:Neologisms. --ScienceApologist 11:24, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, neologism.--JyriL ^talk 14:54, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, WP:NEO and WP:OR. Nothing to back up that this is used anywhere, at all. Arkyan • ^(talk) 16:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete OR, NEO, unsourced. I left a note for the article's creator about original research. Flyguy649^talk_contribs 16:33, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. A Google search for "subterrestial planet" turned up only one hit for the full term, and that was a made-up web page which includes a reference to the "Alliance Astronomical Society". A similar Google Scholar search came up empty. The best I could do was a reasonable-looking reference to "subterrestrial-sized planets", and I only could locate one of those! --EMS | Talk 20:26, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete OR, unsourced. I think "subterrestrial" is a very nice word, and if it were used and defined in an authoritative scientific publication, I would be very happy to change my vote, providing the reference is given. Vegasprof 21:15, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and certainly not a dictionary with bogus definitions. (Real definition is here [1]). Danski14^(talk) 03:05, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to underground, see this link [2] 132.205.44.134 23:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - This is an interesting proposal. However, would the average user that is searching for "subterrestrial" be interested in anything in underground (a disambiguation page)? I am inclined to believe that turning this into a redirect would be inappropriate. Dr. Submillimeter 07:25, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment - there is all of one google hit for "subterrestrial planet," and hundreds for online dictionaries, and other pages in which subterrestrial is used to mean underground. Someguy1221 22:05, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - Subterrestrial was moved to subterrestrial planet by User:BlueEarth. The user should have waited until the discussion closed. The rename personally does not affect my statements on this article. Dr. Submillimeter 07:31, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - This article sounds like it would be in a dictionary, not Wikipedia. Branson03 13:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Someguy1221 22:06, 20 April 2007 (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.