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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 of the debate was delete.
Kirill Lokshin 01:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
This was nominated for speedy deletion as "nonsense". It's not nonsense, it's just not very notable. So I'm moving it to AfD.
RSpeer 03:53, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- delete neologism --
Trovatore 04:41, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- This is not nonsense at all, although it is far from being an encyclopedia article. Perhaps it could be moved to the dictionary?
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The dictionary won't take it. It is not attested as a word in widespread use (The only occurrences of the word as actual
uses turn out to be mis-spellings of
flexural.) and doesn't satisfy the
Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion.
Uncle G 13:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- The encyclopaedia subject would be the concept of
flexuality, as per our
Wikipedia:naming conventions (adjectives). I find no sources providing evidence that there is such a concept. Delete.
Uncle G 13:17, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- Flexure is a well-known medical term in use in ALL medical colleges and among the medical fraternity. The splenic and hepatic flexures of the
peritoneum are well known since the time of
Henry Gray. However, the meaning elaborated in the article is probably a neologism and non notable. Not encyclopediac. Delete unless somebody wants to re-work the medical aspects....perhaps, i will even do it.
Prashanthns 14:06, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- I recommend working on
flexure instead.
Uncle G 15:50, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- Delete as part of "
War on Portmanteaux" --
MacRusgail 21:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
- I created this article after editing the
Wesleyan University article to include reference to the great diversity of sexual identities and words to describe those identities there. All of the terms that they use already had wikipedia articles except for this one, so I made this article so that people would know what I was talking about in the wesleayan article. Is there perhaps a better way to do this, perhaps within the
Wesleyan University page, since I'm pretty sure that the only time someone would end up at this article is through a link from the
Wesleyan University page. Thanks for your indulgence, I'm new at wikipedia, so I'm also not entirely sure how to sign my comments and things. I just copied my last comment and changed the timestamp.
- Welcome to Wikipedia. Please familiarize yourself with our
verifiability and
no original research policies. An encyclopaedia article on the concept of
flexuality would have to be verifiable and not original research. It would have to cite reliable sources to show that such a concept existed in the first place and that it had also been peer reviewed and accepted into the corpus of human knowledge by other people. No such sources have been cited, or can be found.
In contrast, a Google Groups search reveals that people consider "flexual" to be a [http://groups.google.com/group/soc.bi/msg/94363e109b7346d7 silly neologism], that is [http://groups.google.com/group/soc.bi/msg/c717d3ef29e33592 "just another in an endless line of weasel words"], and that [http://groups.google.com/group/soc.bi/msg/23d4a39e816302da makes them want to barf]. It appears that this concept, and indeed these words, have no traction outside of their creators. Uncle G 01:25, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- If you follow the hyperlink on the word "unsigned", you'll find out what to do, by the way. Uncle G 11:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- Delete as neologism. It's interesting, but not encyclopedic. - Sensor 01:56, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- I'm ok with it being deleted, and after looking at some of the policy articles, the resons for its deletion are beginning to make sense to me, but without it the wesleyan article seems incomplete, since it references the term "flexual" without providing any context for what it means. Any ides on how to fix that? I'd rather not remove all reference to "flexual" from the wesleyan article, since queer issues are very important on campus.
- Can you cite any source that says what the people at Wesleyan University who invented it assert the word to mean? If so, then you can add it as a footnote against the word in that article. Uncle G 11:24, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
: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.
