Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prospection

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The result was redirect to wiktionary:prospection. v/r - T P 01:52, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Prospection

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This word has been used since 2003 by Voros and since 2006 by Gilbert to mean "looking forward in time" or "purposefully looking forward into the future." Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and even if it were, this neologism does not seem to be in wide use. "Prospection" seems to have a different meaning in archeology, as "geophysical survey," which might hamper searches for refs. Edison (talk) 18:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

comment—i agree with nominator regarding the possibility of an article on either what this one is currently about or on the archeological meaning. on the other hand, there seems to be a concept called this in (maybe) discourse analysis or linguistics which is analyzed in what seems to me to be an encyclopedic manner at length in reliable sources. see e.g. these sources:

Mona Baker; Gill Francis; Elena Tognini-Bonelli (1993). Text and technology: in honour of John Sinclair. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 71–. ISBN 978-90-272-2138-4. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
Susan Hunston; Gill Francis (2000). Pattern grammar: a corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 242–. ISBN 978-90-272-2274-9. Retrieved 11 October 2011.

i'm not sure what to say. maybe there ought to be an article called this, but this article is definitely not it.— alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 20:23, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to wiktionary:prospection. I agree with the nominator that this is a dictionary definition, so I started a wiktionary entry. It is not a common word, but it isn't a neologism; the OED gives citations back to the 19th and 17th centuries, with essentially the same meaning. I think the references to linguistics given by alf.laylah.wa.laylah really have the same meaning too, though used in a specialized context and obscured by jargon. There are several articles which could be written, for example on Archaeological prospection or Stumbling on Happiness or Joseph Voros, but I don't think Prospection is a good title for any of them, and I don't think this stub is a good starting place either. Dingo1729 (talk) 05:12, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Behavioural science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:12, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

redirect as per Dingo1729. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:30, 17 October 2011 (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.