Talk:Ruinism

RFV discussion: June–October 2012
This is badly formatted but that's not really important right now. I thought this was an obvious protologism but a simple Google search turned up a wider variety of results than I expected. So I wonder if this may be attested after all, even if not with the sense given. 00:51, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

According to professional photographer, Gabriel Biderman, the term ruinism, which he uses, is "the beauty of decay" (see ruinism.com/about). It is arguable that the definition I have provided uses the same definition, but talking of decay in an artificial sense. If it would help for the purpose of achieving a better definition, I could alter my definition to include natural decay as well as artificial decay. I believe this would, therefore, prove that my article can be verified by Wiktionary's terms.
 * One use (or multiple dependent uses) isn't enough. That would make it a protologism. For WT:CFI it has to be in use by others, making it a neologism- which is proved by citations in at least 3 independent, durably-archived sources over more than a year Chuck Entz (talk) 03:01, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Most usage seems to be referring to something completely different, and in lowercase. I have created Citations:ruinism (I find the first citation to be extremely funny), but I haven't actually made ruinism yet because I don't know how to define it exactly. As for Ruinism, I can't find a single durable citation and I think it ought to be deleted rather soon. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:07, 16 June 2012 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 04:15, 14 October 2012 (UTC)