User talk:Mark Haubrich

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The entry you created at cosmeticism seems to have been a protologism and has been deleted. If you are sure that it is a real word, please provide evidence of its being used in durably archived media (mainly print works and Usenet groups) as required by our inclusion criteria. (For a term to be included, it must be used by at least three different authors over more than a year, and the authors must be actually using the word, not just explaining its meaning or stating that it exists.) If you can find any such quotations, please add them to Citations:cosmeticism. If you again add this entry without citations, it will likely get you blocked from editing further. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 20:13, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

The entry you created at complete communique seems to have been a protologism and has been deleted. If you are sure that it is a real word, please provide evidence of its being used in durably archived media (mainly print works and Usenet groups) as required by our inclusion criteria. (For a term to be included, it must be used by at least three different authors over more than a year, and the authors must be actually using the word, not just explaining its meaning or stating that it exists.) If you can find any such quotations, please add them to Citations:complete communique. If you again add this entry without citations, it will likely get you blocked from editing further. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 20:14, 15 February 2011 (UTC)