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Pyrokleptic

Dicdef for apparent neologism. Returns 55 unique Google hits [1]. Tracing some links, this post at Rootsweb claims coinage [2]. The term has an entry at pseudodictionary [3] and urbandictionary [4] with the same example usages and multiple sites appear to take it from those two. Wikipedia is not a dictionary and we have a guideline against Neologisms.--Fuhghettaboutit 03:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete—Humorous but hardly notable enough not to be a neologism. Williamborg (Bill) 05:23, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • People unfamiliar with Wikipedia sometimes think that it is a self-submission dictionary of stuff that they have just made up, along the lines of the other self-submission web sites mentioned above. It isn't. It's an encyclopaedia. The title of this article is a protologism, not a word. (It fails Wiktionary's inclusion criteria with a resounding thud. It has zero occurrences on Google Groups, for example.) Given that it isn't even a word, there is no encycylopaedia article about "pyrokleptics" to be had by this title. Original research. Delete. Uncle G 09:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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