Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Power-laundering

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 The Land 12:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete; dicdef of spanking-new neologism - 274 Google hits, most are blogs referring to a single use by a British official referring to Saddam Hussein (and other hits unrelated, many are a pun on politics in the electric power industry). MCB 21:02, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Catamorphism 00:06, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Transwiki and delete, just remembered Wiktionary doesn't generally take these neologisms either. Stifle 12:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Yep. neologism. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 20:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Expand. We live at a time when paradigms are fast movin, and the lack of adequate terms to communicate complex topics is a barrier to popular understanding. People understand money-laundering, and they could understand other forms of slight-of-hand better by comparing them to money laundering. It's an excellent term. (which I didn't coin) But did create the article. Benjamin Gatti 23:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It may be an excellent term (although I doubt it, since it seems to lack a clear and obvious meaning), but it's not one in wide use, which means it should not be in Wikipedia. If indeed "paradigms are fast moving" and this catches on, it can always be added later. MCB 22:59, 13 December 2005 (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.