Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blop
- 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 was delete. —Celestianpower háblame 16:22, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This article just keeps on coming back, and seems to be a magnet for invention. On 2005-11-16 a blop was a "ball created from the tacky substance used on the back of adhesives", which was discussed and found wanting at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blop/2005-11-16. On 2006-04-17 a blop was "a variation on chili-con-carne", which was deleted via {{prod}} on the grounds that there was no evidence to be found that this was true. Now, blopping is purportedly what bloggers do to one another.Yes, some participants on one single web site use this protologism. But Wikipedia is not a dictionary and there is nothing whatsoever written on the subject of blopping which can be used as source material for an encyclopaedia article about it, partly because the word's only properly attested meaning is something completely different: spluttering. (See Krister LINDEN and Jussi PIITULAINEN (2004-05-31). "Discovering Synonyms and Other Related Words" (PDF). CompuTerm 2004 — 3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology.).
This article is at the wrong title, per our Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs), this meaning for this verb is a protologism, and there's apparently nothing to write about what blopping actually is. Uncle G 14:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, neologism. Recury 19:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per well-illustrated nom. Also, "What bloggers do to one another" doesn't bear thinking about QuagmireDog 23:07, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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