Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nowism

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 01:27, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nowism

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not notable philosophy Rd232 ^talk 08:14, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete due to verifiability concerns. I have added a {{hoax}} template to the article, as I feel there is cause for reasonable suspicion of that here. The term "nowism" seems to be often used to refer to a culture of wanting things instantly (eg: [1], [2]), and is defined in a similar way by the Urban Dictionary here: [3]. However, I can find no reference to nowism as defined in this article (the OED contains no definitions whatsoever for the word), and nor can I find any proof of the existence of one A. Pearl, whose poems are said to have inspired this philosophy.

As this article currently stands, I'm !voting Delete on verifiability grounds. Should someone discover sources to verify the truth of this article, the {{hoax}} template should be removed, and I'll reconsider my position. Even in that eventuality, though, notability concerns would surely remain. -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 09:06, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pearl is said to have been born in 1986. The article creator is User:Fig1986. I figure they may be one and the same, so leaning towards non-notable rather than hoax. Rd232 ^talk 11:08, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:Neologism. The source links to newspapers and books, above, identify "nowism" as either a philosophy of instant gratification or a philosophical idea of the present moment as opposed to other moments. Nowhere do I see nowism defined as it is in this article. Yoninah (talk) 22:47, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:53, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:MADEUP. For all you know, this A. Pearl could be the article creator masquerading as some great philosopher. Dew Kane (talk) 04:31, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Notability is not shown. Edward321 (talk) 13:42, 20 March 2010 (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.