Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Infotention

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The result was delete. Courcelles 23:59, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Infotention

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The original version of this article described "Infotention" as a neologism, and that's what it appears to be despite coming from an illustrious source, Howard Rheingold. The only references given relate directly to the term's inventor. There's almost nothing on Google Scholar despite this being apparently important from an academic perspective. Fails WP:RS, WP:NEO. andy (talk) 00:29, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:59, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. An emergent neologism that so far has found no traction. GNews and Books find no English usages of this English neologism. Scholar suggests that the portmanteau word has been coined several times, with several of the meanings it could be short for: "information + attention", "information + retention", "information + distention", and so forth. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 17:04, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No coverage in reliable sources as far as I can tell. Nwlaw63 (talk) 21:24, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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