Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bacteriomics

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 06:49, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bacteriomics

non-notable: 11 googles. Possible neologism combining bacteria and economics, but is it an excepted field of knowledge? Hard to read article, I don't think it's intended as a hoax though I was suspicious. Contains a dictdef but not clear enough to transwiki to wiktionary. Propose delete RJFJR 04:03, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

• It's not a hoax. The -omics is a serious development in biology relating to holistic approaches to genetics, biochemistry etc. This therefore refers to the omics of bacteria, which could have an article written about it, but this is probably not it. There are many more hits for bacterial proteomics and even more for bacterial genomics. My best guess is redirect somewhere, probably -omics. Dunc|☺ 11:07, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, then autoclave. As a biologist, I can emphatically state that we don't need another -omics word. It's as bad as the recent epidemic of -izzle suffixes in pop culture. On a more serious note, it only pulls eight unique Google hits, and only one scholar.google.com hit (where it was in "scare quotes" in a conference program, since even the group that used it knew it was a neologism.) There are no references for it on PubMed. This is a wannabe buzzword that just hasn't gotten its big break. If it must stay, make it a redirect to -omics. --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 16:31, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Neologism with no evidence of widespread usage or acceptance. Quale 19:28, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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