Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zygarchy

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. May be recreated as an article about the "two chariots" meaning, if that concept turns out to be notable.  Sandstein  17:21, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Zygarchy

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Found "Gender equality" redirected here. It's a made-up word, although one like it does mean "a pair of chariots" in certain ancient contexts.

http://books.google.com/books?id=IQI8AAAAMAAJ&q=Zygarchy&dq=Zygarchy&pgis=1

NOR: Google: 3,960,000 = Gender equality; 7,850 = Gender egalitarianism; 358 for "zygarchy" (all hits Wikipedia-based) Yamara ✉ 06:17, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete. The only references to this term and meaning are on Wikipedia or mirrors. The sole reference in the article is apparently there to source the two parts of the word, but there is no indication that the word itself is in a reliable source. There's no point to merging the DICDEF part of this, either, as gender equality is already better than this article has ever been. --Dhartung | Talk 07:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, no reliable sources, fails WP:NEO. Huon (talk) 12:19, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Verify before Wiktionarying it - This is an interesting AfD. In fact, it is true that "Zeugos" means pair/couple but saying that "Zygarchy" is derived from the Greek word "Zeugos" cannot be verified unless someone has the Oxford Greek-English Lexicon. It is interesting because "Zygarchy" also refers to a unit of two chariots used during warfare by the Greeks (and probably the Romans as well). WPMILHIST editors can help with more details. The source for that is The Ars Tactica of Arrian: Tradition and Originality by Philip A. Stadter. Whatever is the case, an wiktionary entry would be appropriate. -- GarbageCollection - !Collect 12:33, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment The term could go to Wiktionary, but only with the "two chariots" meaning. The other is a protologism without any actual usage let alone sources. --Dhartung | Talk 17:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. My findings have been the same—it's questionable whether this is an acknowledged definition of this word. And even if it were, this article looks like a dictionary entry to me, and it would belong elsewhere (with the "two chariots" definition, awaiting a reliable source on the "two-gender rule" definition). --AnnaFrance (talk) 18:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)


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