On 12/29/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
I seem to have caused a bit of a stir on the AfD for
the article Ghost
ramp. I commented that if the Keep advocates don't fix the
fundamental problems identified with the article at its previous AfD
two months ago - which are: no reliable source for the name, no
reliable source for the description and all the inclusions sourced to
maps and satellite photos, i.e. original research - then I will delete
it as original research.
I think you're wrong here. To my mind, if there is an interesting
topic worth writing about, the lack of an official accepted term
should *not* inhibit us from writing about it. We avoid neologisms
where possible - but if not possible, we should use the least
neologistic word possible. I'm sure there are plenty of examples of
this, particularly when we're writing on topics which may never have
been discussed in English before.
In this case, I would be inclined to rename the page "List of
incomplete onramps and offramps". In any case, if you're nominating a
page for deletion because you don't like the name, shame on you...
Steve