Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Post Election Selection Trauma

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 no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 19:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Non-notable. Only 12 hits in Lexis/Nexis, all of them tongue-in-cheek laughs at the doctor who designated this, and two of them letters to the editor. Only five actually are about "PEST"; the other seven just mention it as a joke. All of the articles that mention this phrase are from November and December 2004, indicating this was a brief news item after the election and that is it. csloat 20:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Truncate and merge into Jargon of The Rush Limbaugh Show, where there is already an entry on "PEST" but no elaboration. Suggest reducing this article to one-sentence summary and inserting it into the entry on "PEST" in the Jargon article. Pan Dan 21:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep 9,250 hits on Google certainly makes it notable. Looks like the nominator just might suffer from a touch of it as well as a related disorder. Torturous Devastating Cudgel 19:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No need for personal attacks. Only 12 hits on lexis/nexis; how many of the google hits are copies of this wikipedia entry? how many are blogs?--csloat 08:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. At best a "News of the Weird" type item, at worst, we're helping promote some doctor's scheme to get new patients. Gamaliel 19:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak Keep. I think the article could be better sourced, ie., more examples of usage from reliable sources. As to the suggestion to merge with the Limbaugh article, I don't think that is appropriate, since he did not coin the term, at least according to the article. The psychologist should get the credit, not Limbaugh. The reference there should link to this article. Crockspot 19:44, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to "Jargon of The Rush Limbaugh Show," the terms listed there are either coined or popularized by Limbaugh. So PEST could go there, and as I said, it already is there. Pan Dan 19:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.