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The result was delete. Wifione ^Message 12:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Neologism. No evidence of notability. Earlier today, I added what is now the only source for the article, which is on an unrelated Japanese blog-post. Neologism itself is anachronistic and has not received significant coverage in reliable sources. A search for sources is complicated by the fact that "tanga" is a single, short word that has several other referents. A Google search for tanga poem brought up this Wikipedia article, one blog-style post that seemed to just be a misspelling of tanka, at least two pages devoted to poems on the Tanga region in Tanzania, one poem by a poet named Tanga, and what look like several Wikipedia mirrors on the first page. Indicates this page may be the result of a hoax. elvenscout742 (talk) 07:28, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not directly related, but possibly noteworthy, is that just before deciding to nominate this page for deletion I removed a series of three external links from the page.[1][2][3] These links may at one point have acted as sources for the article, but the are all user-generated/self-published blog-style pages, one appears to no longer exist, and the other two do not make use of the made-up word "tanga". elvenscout742 (talk) 07:36, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Examining some of the websites that do come up in a Google search for what appears to be more restrictive wording, the one name that appears to come up again and again in relation to the coinage is one Allison Millcock, who self-published (through Lulu Press) a book with the title pausing for a moment ... haiga and tanga. I suspect she is the one who coined the term. elvenscout742 (talk) 08:03, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Non-notable neologism. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 10:44, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. gråb whåt you cån (talk) 11:09, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MBisanz ^talk 00:56, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What happens if there is no extensive consensus on one of these debates but no one is arguing in the article's defense? Should I have started with a proposed deletion instead? elvenscout742 (talk) 11:10, 12 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• delete not notable. --Shorthate (talk) 00:27, 15 November 2012 (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.