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Blurpinkle

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Contested speedy. Neologism with notability asserted by submitter, but with most Google hits being eBay references pointing back to submitter's commercial art operation. --Finngall ^talk 19:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Delete This has been speedied at least once today already, taking my google research on the talk page with it. Short version 2,910 G-hits, nearly all ebay and myspace links created by someone with a username of blurpinkle selling the related products. No hits on G-news archive for term. Keeps reposting article with claims of "added/adding notability" but only further links to websites by creator of term. Improbcat 19:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and salt if necessary. Blatant self-promotion. -- RHaworth 19:29, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete and salt, as above. Should also include Blackout (entertainer) and Michael Biggins. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

• Strong Keep This aticle was created as an expantion to the already established aticle on american entertainer Blackout of whom I an many others am a fan of and who's notability has already been well established in book, film, magazine, newspaper, as well as internet sources for over 10 years. Blackout.com and blurpinkle are free sites and while there is merchandise sold under the ebay username blurpinkle by Blackout (Michael Biggins) this does not negate notability. Does one delete Walt Disney because of the ridiculous amount of merchandising it does? My goal in this was to make it its own section to expand on the meditation, color explanation, and meaning behind blurpinkle, not to get people to buy anything, so I am removing any commercial looking links and expanding sniglet, spiritual, story and meditation meanings which are related to ascended master and violet flame meditation techniques which has a strong global human interest. Google is not the end all be all of research and unfortunately google usually puts commercial links FIRST in including EBAY because they are PAID to do so. ManofToth 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Comment What you say about Google may be true, but if one runs the Google search again leaving out all the eBay results, there isn't much left. --Finngall ^talk 19:45, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I am showing over 2000 Blurpinkle hits on google searching for blurpinkle -ebay links. The word is used by many people in various terms on all sorts of sights including social networking sites to refer to not only the color combo, but meditation, and acronym meanings. Example, the google search -ebay brings up various users using such as: "wishing you good blurpinkle vibes", you have a "blurpinkle aura", "send me some blurpinkle energy!". While this may be considered 'new agey' or silly to some, that is a matter of opinion and does not reduce notability. The word would definitely be referred to at this point as a sniglet with growing use. I have bookmarked somewhere a very long article from a national source on blurpinkle that has nothing to do with merchandising at all. Please give me more time to fill this out I do admit I saved it too fast without it being complete but I will rectify that. Thank you. ManofThoth 20:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)ManofThoth

• Strong Delete Obvious self promotion.