Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theonym
My sense echoes the comment above, except I lean a bit towards the delete, since my searches did not suggest there was much to the term, other than the definition ''the name of a god''. The term is not used much in contemporary discourse. If I do an unfiltered search for just the term ''theonym'' I get entries like the Free Dictionary, and others, which simply reiterate ''the name of a god'' and that's that, suggesting the term is not encyclopedic, and it is hard to tell how many of these "sources" are copying Wikipedia. I don't have a sense that the term is used much except possibly in linguistic analysis of ancient languages and cultures, and even then, not used much. If we create ''theonymics'', what would that be about? There is a possible source https://books.google.com/books?id=lEwwu0Ne5YMC&pg=PR6&lpg=PR6&dq=theonymics&source=bl&ots=F0UcWyPUHj&sig=9IgMLaN_CnRB9KiwMbCoBuyAJPE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rCziVJKBD4OrgwSk_oGwCw&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=theonymics&f=false here and a https://books.google.com/books?id=paoDK0afIcIC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=theonymics&source=bl&ots=kpJmXbPXRy&sig=v4lH_WyMPy5MdW7VMZqiCDc1KsE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rCziVJKBD4OrgwSk_oGwCw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=theonymics&f=false brief mention here, and a https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_4A80RG8MZ.HTM mention in an obscure book here. Overall I am not enthusiastic about this topic given the paucity of sources, lack of interest, and if we did keep it all we could write about it would be a |dictionary definition
— User:Tomwsulcer, 17:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:DICDEF (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)