Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BurLARP

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 00:49, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BurLARP[edit]

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I came across this as a new page creation and noticed that the page had issues with sourcing and tone. I decided against immediately nominating it for AfD, as I wanted to give the article's creator a chance to properly source the article and show notability.

The only issue though, is that I cannot see where this is anything other than a neologism that someone came up with around 2014. The article asserts that it's in common use, yet I cannot bring up anything to show that this term is really used anywhere. A search brings up almost solely misspellings of the word "burlap". I also noted that while the article gives off the impression that the episode of Suburgatory named their episode after this neologism for larping, the episode's full title "Blowtox and Burlarp" suggests that the similarity between the larping neologism and the title are incidental, given that the title also misspells the word "botox". I also need to note that the episode aired in early 2013, a year before the term really began being used in South Africa.

I just don't see where this term is in use anywhere. Even if we take into account that this term is being used only in South Africa and not in mainstream sources, we'd still see where it's being used somewhere, even if only in social media. I was initially open to the idea of this getting added somewhere to the existing article on larping, but this appears to be such a newly minted word that I don't really even think it merits a mention there either. I'd speedy tag this as something that someone came up with one day or a neologism, but I would like to have someone else look for sourcing as well.

I've attempted to talk to the article's creator about this, but have yet to get any good response - he stopped trying to remove the notability tags but he hasn't really provided any good sourcing, just merchant links for the episode and other things that do not show that this term is being used. Even the link to Twitter doesn't show where this term is used as anything other than a misspelling of "burlap". Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:44, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Agree with Nominator's careful explanation of the non-existence of the word!New Media Theorist (talk) 03:48, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Non-notable neologism. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 04:27, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Fails WP:GNG. sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 05:54, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete per nom (WP:GNG/WP:NEO). — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 15:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as my searches found nothing good. SwisterTwister talk 06:12, 13 September 2015 (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.