Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Word Rebus

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. JForget 22:14, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Word Rebus

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This article was prodded back in 2007 with the concern: "Unsourced, unverifiable. There are many different definitions of things called a "word rebus" (genre "momanon" for "man in the moon"), there is no evidence that this or any other definition is "the correct one" according to any reliable source. Fails WP:V". The stated concerns still exist; there are no references to substantiate this article's definitions of "word rebus" or "word arithmetic". Suggest deletion as an unsourced neologism apparently coined by the article's creator, or else rewriting and moving to a more accurate name if reliable sources can be found. --Muchness (talk) 21:57, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or maybe redirect: I can find examples of "word rebus" referring to games of the "momanon" and "time time" type (e.g., [1]). It might be possible to discuss such games at rebus and redirect this there. I can't find any examples of "word rebus" meaning the sort of "word arithmetic" this article focuses on; that doesn't seem very rebus-y to me at all. (I also didn't find any uses of the phrase "word arithmetic" with this meaning, but I didn't look very hard.) --Chris Johnson (talk) 03:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:10, 31 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 00:02, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. — Jujutacular ^T · C 00:32, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, no sources on the subject strictly. Anna Lincoln 21:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unsourced, although there are plenty of books on wordplay that one can refer to for notable word games. I have a feeling that this is made up, since this doesn't resemble a rebus in any respect. In fact, as word games go, this doesn't look like a very challenging game (in the example given, "a flea chair merits", minus the words "iris each art" will leave you with the word "flame" Mandsford (talk) 15:44, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete for lack of reliable sources, verifiability, and notability. Cnilep (talk) 17:08, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.