Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Omnitheism

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The result was delete. Sr13 00:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Omnitheism

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This article consists of detailed yet wholly unattributed speculation about a newly-termed religious belief. Searches of EBSCO, JSTOR and Google Books turned up just one publication which even includes the word "omnitheism" or "omnitheist": a 1999 book which says an omnitheist is "someone who believes that God is everywhere."^[1] That definition is completely unrelated to this article, which is a prime example of original research and has been prominently tagged as such since 2007-03-30. — Elembis (talk · contribs) 23:51, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Religion-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 02:31, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - does not appear to be be a notable use of the term; total lack of sourcing, along with a variety of different uses implies to me that this is basically a niche neologism, used by different people in different ways. Does not appear to be notable enough to be encyclopedic. --Haemo 05:17, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as nn and badly-defined neologism, not to mention WP:OR. Ford MF 05:47, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, I cant find any scholarly use of the term. John Vandenberg 06:03, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, search engine didn't find many hits, so probably non-notable. Also has no references, so probably original research. *Cremepuff222* 19:08, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delte per nom. —Disavian (^talk/_contribs) 20:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to Pantheism for which this neologism is presumably a synonym. The new word is an illegitimate hybrid between Latin Omnis - all and Greek Theos God. Such hybrids are to be deplored. The creator needs to establish that his concept is somthing else. Peterkingiron 22:48, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
  • The book mentioned above says an omnitheist is one who thinks God is everywhere, but this article (and the pages linked to in its External links section) give a very different definition. Neither equates "omnitheism" and pantheism, so I don't see a warrant for redirecting the former to the latter; such a redirect would be confusing for anyone who uses the term and useless for anyone who doesn't. — Elembis (talk · contribs) 02:20, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Many academic and scientific coinages are mixtures of Greek and and latin roots -- indeed many later latin words are borrowings from the greek. There is nothing wrong with such a coinage. The problem is tha tthis is a coinage, with no apparent notability. If it had notability, the etyomology would not be a problem. as for "illegitimate hybrids", IMO there is no such thing in english: "The English language is the result of the attempts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids, and no more legitimate than any of the other results." -H. Beam Piper DES ^(talk) 04:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless reliable sources can be cited that establish the widespread use of this term, and its consequent notability. As per Elembis, a redirect would not be helpful. A redirect could also be reverted to the current article at any time -- an afd cannot make a decision to redirect binding unless it is "delete and replace with a redirect to..." DES ^(talk) 04:18, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as original research/soap boxing. DreamGuy 20:58, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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