Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Duology

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The result was delete. PhilKnight (talk) 12:07, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Duology

Whilst "Duology" does seem to be used by some people to describe a cycle of two films or novels, it is not a dictionary defined word. It does not fit into the pattern for trilogy, tetralogy, etc which are made from greek words (whereas this is a hybrid of Latin and Greek). Also, after trying to give the word the benefit of the doubt and having made edits the list to remove things which could not be considered to have been conceived as a "duology" (in the same way that a trilogy might), it became apparent that this page was here just to list series of two films or books, and included some unsuitable entries (Ghostbusters 1 & 2; The Iliad and the Odyssey). It also became more and more apparent that hardly anything would qualify as a "duology", unless, perhaps, the author had conceived it to be thought of as "The something Duology" (like the tetralogy "The Alien Quadrilogy" has been described in marketing materials). I am yet to see an example of "Duology" to be used in this way. Robsinden (talk) 13:06, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - While duology is a perfectly valid term (wikt:duology) and there are many books described as duologies, the article appears to fall foul of WP:DICDEF. -- JediLofty ^User_Talk 14:43, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

can wiktionary be cited as proof a word exists? i believe that the wiktionary entry should be deleted too - it doesn't seem to be a real word - it doesn't have an entry at dictionary.com or any other online dictionary that i can find![1] Robsinden (talk) 15:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The word certainly exists, and has been used for as long as I can remember (I'm 35) to describe a series of two books telling the same story in two parts. Google finds 107,000 results for the term and Amazon has 21 results in "Books". While Wikipedia itself isn't to be used as a source, there are 154 articles containing the word "duology" at the time of writing. -- JediLofty ^User_Talk 15:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to delete something at Wiktionary, you'll have to bring it up there. That project has different criteria than we do. --Dhartung | Talk 06:37, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, at best a dicdef, but probably unsourceable as a word. No, Wiktionary cannot be considered a reliable source (itself), nor would a dictionary entry even in a reliable one confer actual notability. I'm very skeptical of tetralogy and heptalogy as well. These should probably all be redirected to trilogy or perhaps sequel. --Dhartung | Talk 06:34, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge & redirect this, tetralogy/quadrilogy, heptalogy, trilogy, etc, to series of works or somesuch. They are more or less the same thing, a set of works forming a larger single work. 70.51.10.69 (talk) 08:17, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Clearly unencyclopedic per WP:DICDEF. It consists only of a definition, discussion of coinage, and examples. Ningauble (talk) 22:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.