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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Northeastern Quartersphere

: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. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:33, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

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OR essay. Google gives no hits whatsoever, not citations in the article, and I've never heard this phrase before. Just a neologism. Basalisk inspect damage⁄berate 02:06, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

  • Delete as original research. For comparison, the term "Northern Hemisphere" gets over 2 million hits on Google Books, and the term "Eastern Hemisphere" gets over 300,000 hits on Google Books. But the term "Northeastern Quartersphere" gets a grand total of zero hits on Google Books (or Google News or Google Scholar). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:17, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Delete - After some searching, found zero coverage in reliable sources. Northamerica1000(talk) 04:59, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Delete. Fails to meet GNG.--Epeefleche (talk) 06:28, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Delete Violation of WP:OR. Frankly, if Northamerica1000 can't find anything, it doesn't have a hope in hell of notability. Yunshui 雲‍水 11:33, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Hello I made the article actually because I noticed that there was little to no information at all quarters of the earth and actually no accepted academic term even for it. A quick search into what one should call a quarter of a sphere I think literally comes up with more cases of people asking questions than answers. I put it up under the name Northeastern Quartersphere with the intention having a few other possible names people might conjure when thinking of that region link to it as well, and agree that that term alone qualifies as OR and does not exist anywhere else.

Despite a paucity of material on it, I still think the region with those boundaries is significant, but I do concede that any term used to describe the area would be in little and that maybe the concept itself is rare. The best term would probably be "Northern Eastern Hemisphere" or "Easter Northern Hemisphere". All things considered (including Wikipedia's Policy), it might be best just to touch on this in a reduced or modified fashion on either the Northern Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere articles as a side note. Your thoughts?Nanib (talk) 21:55, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

  • Comment: What a fascinating creation, albeit not one for Wikipedia in the first instance. As for sourcing, I would note that on 18 April 2011, user Stormtrooper at the Wrestlezone forum opined, "I thought the entire Earth consisted of just a Northern Hemisphere and an Eastern Hemisphere (and a Northeastern Quartersphere)... lol".[http://forums.wrestlezone.com/showthread.php?t=104012&page=1410] I am interested to find that there are some esoteric scholarly-looking references to Earth regions using the term "quartersphere", but not one on the "Northeastern Quartersphere."[http://books.google.com/books?id=ImKDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Quartersphere%22&dq=%22Quartersphere%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k58gT8_4M6iI0QGw1LzuCA&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAw][http://books.google.com/books?id=ksK2IlfZfNsC&pg=PA63&dq=%22Quartersphere%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k58gT8_4M6iI0QGw1LzuCA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Quartersphere%22&f=false][http://books.google.com/books?id=Vxg7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Quartersphere%22&dq=%22Quartersphere%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=k58gT8_4M6iI0QGw1LzuCA&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBQ][http://books.google.com/books?id=nLHYCtZoaxQC&pg=PA383&dq=%22Quartersphere%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2aAgT5CmMIrV0QGxmd2KCQ&ved=0CGAQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22Quartersphere%22&f=false][http://books.google.com/books?id=QkMD8HKRlgoC&pg=PA394&lpg=PA394&dq=quarter+sphere+marginality&source=bl&ots=UzJS296g-W&sig=iDlz66m1Rzz7rHttVHr5t2vGjbM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TqEgT_3YGuOW0QH_xrTuCA&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=quarter%20sphere%20marginality&f=false].--Milowent • hasspoken 00:42, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
  • ? I found some published texts that used the term "Northern Eastern Hemisphere" or "Eastern Northern Hemisphere": http://books.google.com/books?id=JFSSMeNTAVkC&pg=PA76&dq=%22northern+eastern+hemisphere%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4qwgT4H-DsGbiAKK-oH6Bw&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22northern%20eastern%20hemisphere%22&f=false, http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Northeastern+Quartersphere%22#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=active&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22northern+eastern+hemisphere%22&psj=1&oq=%22northern+eastern+hemisphere%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=26526l35627l0l36061l44l44l4l23l0l0l123l1350l15.2l17l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=e082afedeaa7888e&biw=1366&bih=667, http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Northeastern+Quartersphere%22#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&safe=active&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%22eastern+northern+hemisphere%22&psj=1&oq=%22eastern+northern+hemisphere%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=157050l157050l1l159148l1l1l0l0l0l0l67l67l1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=e2e554e18c9b843&biw=1366&bih=667.

I don't know if this makes this worth saving as an independent article under one of those names or not? The top one, Sub-Saharan Africa: an environmental history - Page 76, of them was something talking about Jared Diamond's reasoning for communication lagging in Sub-Saharan Africa as opposed to the "northern Eastern Hemisphere", for what that is worth.Nanib (talk) 01:38, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

  • Delete not a real term.--KAVEBEAR (talk) 16:23, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

  • Delete as WP:OR. -- 202.124.75.52 (talk) 01:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
  • One Question before it is deleted though for WP:OR, does anyone think it would be reasonable and appropriate under Wikipedia Policy to add anything about the Northern portion of the Eastern Hemisphere or Eastern portion of the Northern Hemisphere to the respective articles or even creating an article on the Northern Eastern Hemisphere, or do you think it would be best just to let this issue rest for now, only to be touched on if and when it does become more common a concept in terms of "notability"? Regarding the second part of the first part of that question, I'm asking because I don't know if has been established yet that the idea of a Northern Eastern Hemisphere or its equivalent itself notable enough for inclusion in the encyclopedia here, or if it is not. If it is not then its not and I don't take any issue with it.Nanib (talk) 01:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

:*Nanib, I'd let it rest for now. I think you could consider examining whether an article Quartersphere might be created without running afoul of OR and SYNTH, there are a fair number of writing which use that term to refer to a quarter of the Earth.--Milowent • hasspoken 02:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

  • Delete Okay. Thanks for the helpful answer and suggestion. I might try that.Nanib (talk) 00:45, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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