Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Petrocurrency

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The result of the debate was keep. ugen 64 02:40, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Petrocurrency

Neologism. Google for the term gets 361 hits, and many of them seem to be wikipedia mirrors [1]. DaveTheRed 05:03, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Weak Delete. Petrocurrency is a generalization of terms like petrodollar and petroeuro (which separately and together yield approximately 18000 Google searches). While this is probably a bit of a neologism, I think petrodollar, which is also a general term for petrocurrencies, merits an article (15200 Google hits, dates back to 1973), so I'll request one.NatusRoma 07:28, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

- I have created a petrodollar stub - I hope someone with more knowledge of international politics and finance than me will add to it. Denni ☯ 01:44, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
Delete, not notable, neologism. Megan1967 04:18, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep This is more notable than a pokemon character. --Spinboy 07:31, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Strong Keep Petrocurrency may appear to be a recent term, but (1) it clearly didn't originate with this article, (2) its use is widespread (google seems to throw up its use in many different countries), (3) it is already linked to extensively on WP and (4) it is a useful generalisation of petrodollar etc - many things that might be discussed in petrodollar belong more logically in petrocurrency. Quite apart from that, "The term was coined after the Arab countries quadrupled petroleum prices in 1973, thereby increasing the amount of petrocurrency so rapidly that it became a matter of great concern to international monetary experts" according to indiainfoline.com which is not a Wikipedia mirror, so I doubt it is a neologism. Further evidence for that claim is here — an academic is using the word "petrocurrency" in an article that appears to date from the late 1980s (and at any rate can not date to earlier than the abolition of the Deutschmark), unfortunately I can not find a date for said press release but the articles cited date to around 1987, and the language of "entering the EMS" belongs squarely in that era. In other words, this quotable reference appears to predate the article by around fifteen years, and another reference suggests the term originated thirty years before the article — neologism ought to be the least of our worries. More to the point might be that in its current stublike state, it is little more than a Wiktionary definition. However, since the economic characteristics and importance of petrocurrency are hardly touched on by this article, it is a ripe candidate for expansion (and certainly not deletion!). --VivaEmilyDavies 07:11, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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