Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quorange

Quorange

was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was

Submitter admits the word to be his own creation [1]. "Has anyone ever used the wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) ? If a word doesn't exist, and you think it should, you can just add it, like I did with quorange (http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorange). :D " This could be interpreted as "if the word doesn't already have an article on Wikipedia" but I'm suspicious when I Google for a word and the first fifty results are all mirrors of the Wikipedia article. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:06, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Delete unless a valid source can be found. Ziggurat 21:11, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Cute; the article admits its neologistic nature describing neologisms in abstract encyclopedic terms. Ian Pugh 21:45, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete Jayjg 22:08, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Clever. Someone should also delete all of the Wikipedia references, such as on Nonce word--if the Quorange page is deleted. Good find, Mr. Feldspar! Good eyes, and congratulations. ---Rednblu | Talk 00:23, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete neologism. Fire Star 01:10, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete this potential wikiabuse before it takes root. --Goobergunch 01:12, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. We have an article on strange loops under Douglas Hofstadter, and there's already a word to rhyme with orange (sporange), invalidating the reason to create one. Inky 03:28, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete: Abuse. Geogre 03:41, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Article added in bad faith. --Improv 17:20, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete: Qubanana. -- [[User:Bobdoe|Bob Doe]] 18:10, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I get the shivers when I think of the submitter exhorting everyone to stick their nonce words on Wikipedia. Anyway, Tom Lehrer had no trouble rhyming 'orange' without inventing new words: "Eating an orange / while making love / Makes for a bizarre enj- / oyment thereof." (I think I stumbled on that one in Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau de Marot). Oh, and delete, of course, though I'm going to apply Hanlon's Razor and assume (misguided) good faith. Pnot 21:51, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. I'm ashamed to see someone from the Boards soing something so idiotic, but its not unexpected, the Boards are notorious over here for a reason... Kiand 00:55, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. Nonce word. Besides, if you can't find a rhyme for "orange" it's pretty lame to invent one. Orange, orange, boe-borange, bonana fanna foe-forange, fee fie mo morange, orange! [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 01:58, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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