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The result was Delete --JForget 01:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Heptalogy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

This is an article about a nonce word formed on a predictable numeric system with almost no precedent in published material. It contains a dictionary definition and a list compiled by original research, neither of which is encyclopedic. No evidence the term "heptalogy" has been applied to any of these works before. Lo2u ^{(T • C)} 17:32, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Not the study of snakes (hepatology), but a made-up word for 7 things, analogous to trilogy for three things. As Lo2u points out, there's no indication that this is a common term. In addition, the realities of publishing make it unlikely that anyone pre-plans a seven piece "heptalogy" as they might a trilogy; at best, it could be said that some successful writers followed "quit while you're ahead" after seven bestsellers. The idea of Police Academy as an epic saga is... interesting... but there's no real continuity to those films. Having read the Chronicles of Narnia, I can safely say the same thing about that (compare "The Magician's Nephew" to Lion/Witch/Wardrobe). Mandsford (talk) 18:54, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I don't think Wikipedia should be used to try to establish neologisms like "heptalogy". (I would be more sympathetic to a page listing series that have seven members. After all there are plenty of slightly whimsical listing pages around.) Grafen (talk) 19:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete, Delete as nn neologism. (To Grafen: you mean like List of film heptalogies?) Clarityfiend (talk) 14:18, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Guess what's going to be nominated next....Mandsford (talk) 14:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Pentalogy if I have my way! --Lo2u ^{(T • C)} 14:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete or convert to category: If folks believe this to be a legitimate term ... it has a meaning derived from prefix and suffix unlike some nonce words (e.g. quark) ... and that having seven works in a series is a useful categorical distinction, then create Category:Heptalogies as following from precedent of Category:Trilogies (it looks like noone has ventured into tetralogy or duology territory yet). But, if you're not feeling like making more categories for breakfast ... send this to the bottom of the sea. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: neologism, original research... Octology? No way! Zerokitsune (talk) 03:49, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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