Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Armagideon
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The result of the debate was ambiguous. While the vote count is clearly to delete, User:Mattley provided sufficient verification in my opinion to support redirect. Noting that redirects are cheap and that there is no problematic history which needs to be destroyed, I am going to exercise my discretion to make this into a redirect. Rossami (talk) 02:56, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Armagideon[edit]
Non-notable. Just a word used in a song. Bart133 15:34, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- deletegeorge 15:36, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. jni 15:39, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Xezbeth 17:14, Jan 22, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not notable, dictionary definition. Megan1967 01:41, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not encyclopedic. Wyss 07:59, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Redirect to Armageddon. This is a Jamaican form of that word as far as I know. It crops up more than a few times in concsious reggae, so it is possible someone might have heard of it from there and be trying to find out its meaning. Can I just redirect it, or what? Mattley 13:30, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Do not redirect without some verification that this is indeed a Jamaican form of "Armageddon". I don't know where it comes from (the song wasn't even originally by the Clash, by the way), but I've always suspected that the ending of -gideon was somewhat significant. -R. fiend 20:09, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not sure what kind of verification I can produce. There isn't any source out there saying 'this comes from here and means such and such.' It's all inferred, really. Here's a [Lee Perry] album called the "Battle of Armagideon" [1]. Here's what seems to be the original version of "Armagideon Time" [2]. This one is from a site on Biblical quotations in reggae music [3]. This one contains lyrics from a Bunny Wailer song [4]. It's definitely Jamaican in origin. And it definitely means 'the end of the world'. There also seems to be a rapper recording under the name [5], but I have no idea whether or not he merits an article as yet. He's picked the wrong name really cos he drowns in a sea of other people's google hits with his current moniker. Mattley 21:25, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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