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Talk:Meatspace

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171: 106: 56: 21: 274:). Two people asserted that this is already more than mere dictionary content but I see nothing beyond the meaning, origins, usage and related terms of a word. That's all lexical content. There is no encyclopedic content here yet - and given the stability of the page, it's unlikely to become more anytime soon. 343:
The Knowledge (XXG) deletion policy does not object to neologisms per se, but to neologisms "not supported by reliable sources". This article now has four references (three of which I added), two external links (one of which I added), and a Wiktionary link.
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The Knowledge (XXG) deletion policy states that "articles than can never be other than a dictionary article ... can be merged ... or moved to Wiktionary". This article is more than a dictionary article, because it discusses the history of the term.
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This page is an excellent dictionary definition - and nothing more. The opinions offered in the recent AFD discussion are unconvincing. Most tacitly acknowledged that this is a dicdef (perhaps forgetting that
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The quote is "Oh, and "meatspace" is what people who spend too much time in cyberspace call the real world. And yes, it's catching on: It already has its own entry in the online encyclopedia Knowledge (XXG)."
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Ideally, the 1st, 3rd, and 5th external links should be incorporated as references, beforehand. Then a complete merging would be easier. (The Urban dictionary link can be forgotten. The
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I noticed that the Knowledge (XXG) guidelines recommend using secondary rather than primary sources in articles about neologisms, so I added two secondary sources.
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The current contents should be merged with the existing Wiktionary page and this page replaced with a soft-redirect using the
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Let's try and not be like urban dictionary, listing rubbish words that are only used by a small proportion of the population.
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should be linked from a talkpage somewhere, as internet-investigation at its finest - incomplete but hilarious... :) --
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I personally found even the previous proposed-for-deletion version of the article useful when I read it today.
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I first learned of this term from the show Crossballs. Should the popular culture refrences not be mentioned?
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and it now redirects there. For the contribution history and old versions of the merged article please see
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The deletion of this article was proposed on March 13, 2008 on the grounds that it is a neologism.
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While the term "meatspace" has a unique history and meaning, it refers to the same concept as
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It is not established enough to list here on wiki, a few random quotes won't do it.
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The deletion message states that I may remove the deletion message, so I will.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/first_life_sl_parody.html
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Index

Articles for deletion
deletion
29 January
2007
the discussion
Meatspace
merged
Real life
its history
Media mention
mentioned by a media organization
cite news
help
Media mention
mentioned by a media organization
cite news
help
First Life
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/first_life_sl_parody.html
samwaltz
12:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
samwaltz
12:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Knowledge (XXG) is not a dictionary
wi
12.168.68.11
15:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
h i s
r e s e a r c h
23:34, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

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