Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extranym
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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 was delete. DS (talk) 21:42, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Appears to be a made-up word - no relevant Ghits (this article and an unrelated blog entry), no entry in dictionary.com, probably hoax or something the creator just made up. ukexpat (talk) 19:38, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- ukexpat (talk) 19:39, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete It seems to be made up. The only source cited talks about the root "extra", not the newly made up word. Steve Dufour (talk) 19:59, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as made up. Someone else created the same word but gave it a different definition [1]. DCEdwards1966 20:09, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - no source (the one given doesn't mention it). I think "a philosophical thought exercise by noted philosopher PJ Hyett" translates as something made up one day. There seem to be a lot of neologisms at AfD tonight - for the fourth time, I type... fails WP:NEO#Articles on neologisms. JohnCD (talk) 21:40, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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