Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disaster informatics
Fails WP:NEO as well as WP:VAIN. The google search for "disaster informatics" turns out a total of 143 hits, 56 unique. The main hit is with the work of David Wild who seems to have coined the phrase. Perhaps not unrelated (ahem) is the fact that the article nominated here has been created by Davidwild (talk · contribs). Now of course there might be a day where this terminology is widely used and accepted, but until that day comes this should not have its own article. Pascal.Tesson 18:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - vanity article. —Hanuman Das 00:31, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Comments by David Wild I don't consider this any more of a neologism than any derivative branch of Informatics (such as Health Informatics, Geoinformatics etc), and certainly less so than the existing GIDEON Informatics, Parliamentary informatics and so on, although the area is very new. I don't think there is another term which encompasses the application of technology in disaster areas though.
Regarding vanity, it's certainly not a personal conflict of interest. As a researcher in the new field of disaster inforamtics, I feel qualified to begin a page - surely a requirement that an author not be a researcher in the subject area of a page on a research field is counter productive? In the article I currently just give a definition, and links to 18 resources, only one of which is a site I am connected with in any way (the School of Informatics Disaster Informatics page at IU, which also contains information about other researchers).
I am open to discussion on this, particularly as to where it may or may not fit the neologism criteria of Wikipedia. Obviously the criteria are quite involved and I'm new to Wikipedia submission :)—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Davidwild (talk • contribs) 11:08, 26 July 2006.