Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/URL Butchering

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. Mailer Diablo 13:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] URL Butchering

Neologism, completely non-notable. Could also be original research, as the would-be citation at the bottom is dubious. Delete. Nikodemos 07:59, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

• delete. otherwise known as "not being blind". ... aa:talk 08:03, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as protologism. Otherwise known as "OMG i know how 2 uze teh internets its so KEWL!" I think. :P --Kinu ^t/_c 08:15, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The concept of editing an URL manually in a browser is about as non-notable as it gets. Remy B 08:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism. --Terence Ong 14:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as a non-notable and useless neologism. Really, people have been typing URLs manually into browsers since 1990. Sheesh. JIP | Talk 15:14, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as goofy neoprotologism. — Adrian Lamo ·· 20:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. 1) Only 57 Ghits but they mostly seem valid and different, enough to support that it's a useful (and used by designers, if not much) way to describe the technique. 2) I don't see it as useless at all. It appears to be usability/design issue, to support URL butchering, so that (for instance) that if a user goes to www.whatever/store he'll get to the store and not a 404 or a directory list or something else etc. Herostratus 23:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Uniform Resource Locator. Only 59 Google hits for a term relating to Internet use is very few, but the concept is useful even if the term is not significant. Contrary to the nomination, the Google hits do indicate that the term is associated with Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant) rather than being original research. --Metropolitan90 00:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, since when did editing an URL need a protologism all of its own? I guess it's an exciting discovery for people who don't know how directories work. -- Mithent 01:50, 10 March 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.