Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pacific World

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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:17, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pacific World

A tricky one, this. As a New Zealander, I've never heard the term used and it feels like a neologism. It's a virtual orphan, too, only linked from a disambiguation page. Truckloads of ghits, but they're all for different things (A Buddhist magazine, various travel companies, and more often than not qa chance juxtaposition of words). I'm not convincved. If it is an accepted term, then it's likely as not more of a wiktionary thing anyway as it's unlikely to grow beyong definition length. Grutness...wha? 06:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

• Perhaps redirect to Oceania, as folks typing that into the searchbar would most likely find what they seek in that case? Fabricationary 06:57, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• redirect per Fabricationary. If it's expanded (specifically the islands mentioned), we'll just have another article on Oceania as is. BigHaz 07:02, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as an Australian, I can't see anyone searching for that term. The term is never used in that sense. While you can get hits for it, it isn't in the context used in the article. The terms for the region are either Oceania or Australasia. Capitalistroadster 07:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oceania-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 07:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, neologism.-gadfium 08:35, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NEO & WP:V, personally I've never heard the term in the States either and can't verify any usage of the term as described in the article.--Isotope23 12:34, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. And since when was Antarctica an island in the South Pacific? — Haeleth Talk 18:25, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - I've never heard of the term either. QazPlm 05:13, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per everyone above. Sarah Ewart (Talk) 09:49, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete hasn't been verified to be a widely used term. South Pacific is the commonly used term I would use to find that geographic region. Ansell 12:10, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete -- Longhair 00:07, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

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