Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Xirradiate

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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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was transwiki to wiktionary. – Jitse Niesen (talk) 23:04, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Xirradiate

Badly named almost-dictdef. Not sure what to do with this. Feels like possible copyvio, but no online matches. No links and only five Google hits, so probably not worth keeping as a redirect. Might almost speedy, but there's that one paragraph of actual content. Not sure if it's worth merging anywhere, and if so, where. Ilmari Karonen 00:52, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete as neologism not in wide use: Google "xirradiate" 5 hits; "xirradiation" 57 hits. The therapeutic use is a type (not the most common) of what is referred to as to as radiation therapy or radiotherapy. MCB 04:51, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge to Xirradiation and reformat so as to not be a dicdef. Jesse 14:01, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete as per MCB CLW 15:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Transwiki to wiktionary. Dicdef.--Isotope23 15:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Transwiki to wiktionary and rename to "X-irradiate". It doesn't seem to be a very common usage, but it is indeed listed on Dictionary.com under "X-irradiate". (The reference to WebMD.com is unverifiable.) The personal essay should be removed and replaced with a statement saying that this is an alternate term for radiation therapy. Andrew pmk | Talk 23:56, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Transwiki to wiktionary as "x-irradiate" (with hyphen). Appears to be in American Heritage Dictionary. [1] Rd232 16:47, 20 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.