Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Calathumpian

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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:57, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Calathumpian[edit]

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Fails verification. The primary use of the word (spelled Callithumpian [1]) appears to be an adjective to describe a loud and boisterous band. The use of "some other political/religious belief" is used in some sources, but the use is generally just as a nonce word, with no continuity of meaning between sources ([2], [3], [4]). The links in the references currently in the article don't work, but they only claim to support that the word was used in Australian parliament debate. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:39, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete I guess, needs a WP:TNT at least. The main usage should probably be mentioned at charivari, as it is "no doubt derived" from the latter [5] and is described as a very similar act of noisy "musical" public harassment of the unpopular or socially censured [6] [7]. Several improbable etymologies of this meaning are dicussed here.

However, the sense of "one who claims an imaginary religion, joc." [8] doesn't seem to have enough sourcing to make an article. There's a short 1955 letter to the editor in American Speech in which it's defined, given as Australian, and hypothesized to have originated as a description of the Holy Rollers before being contrasted to the more common "musical" usage. That's enough for a sentence somewhere, but not an article. FourViolas (talk) 00:54, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment (if verified) this would be a dictionary definition, but the main issue seems to be that one politician used the term in a speech, perhaps mispronouncing it. If so, it is NN. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:51, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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