Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Motorway town
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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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 00:39, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Motorway town[edit]
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Total neologism - nobody uses this term. And this list is always going to be OR / indivdual view. -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 20:21, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete neologism, too London centric (I mean, it misses out Tingley, and I pretty much think "getting 60% of the town demolished" qualifies as been affected. Will (talk) 20:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Its used in North Kent as slang. Thats why there all from round London. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kentmassive (talk • contribs) 21:07, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and source. Searches of Google News and Google Books indicate use in the UK going back to the 1960s. • Gene93k (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. My search in Google News gives zero hits. And my search of Google Books suggests that the article might just be allowable if described as "a term prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s". -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 18:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Google News searches default to the past month. Clicking the "all dates"[1] link yields hits in 2003-2007. I might be convinced this can be merged into a paragraph in Commuter town. • Gene93k (talk) 23:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. My search in Google News gives zero hits. And my search of Google Books suggests that the article might just be allowable if described as "a term prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s". -- RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 18:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per RHaworth. Meaningless neologism, entirely OR-and-POV dependent. 82.45.248.177 (talk) 09:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as NN neologism per WP:NEO, and as being sufficiently geographically restricted in its usage as to be almost WP:MADEUP Mayalld (talk) 20:21, 21 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete the term may be used elsewhere but nobody with an interest in the article cares enough to add a reference. The list of towns is totally POV and OR - who can say how these towns have changed as a result of a nearby motorway, or how they would have been different otherwise. Halsteadk (talk) 13:43, 22 January 2008 (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.