Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recessionista
Wikipedia is |not a dictionary, much less an urban dictionary
— User:SudoGhost, 18:18, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)
Although I expected to delete as a neologism, I found widespread discussion of this term.   says, "To support an article about a particular term or concept we must cite reliable secondary sources such as books and papers about the term or concept, not books and papers that use the term."  It seems that this term meets that standard.  The ''Financial Post'' http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1253551 here wrote "The word recessionista -- originally a person who enjoys dressing fashionably on a budget -- has gained rapidly in currency and now embraces the worlds of dining, entertaining and beauty.  It was declared the word of the week on the Macmillan Dictionary Web site last week and is one of the top fashion buzz words of 2009, along with its sibling "chiconomics," according to the Global Language Monitor."  It has also been covered by Reuters http://in.reuters.com/article/2009/01/06/us-debenhams-recession-idINTRE5052N620090106 here, CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/15/earlyshow/series/perfect_holiday/main4668530.shtml here, the Times of India http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-03-28/shows/28028864_1_designers-mai-mumbai-elie-saab here, Wales Online http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/11/11/women-are-learning-to-cope-with-credit-crunch-91466-22223957/ here, the San Francisco Chronicle http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-11-02/news/20872175_1_chic-fashion-institute-sarah-palin here, as well as in several other publications.— Preceding Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned comment added by
— User:Cullen328, 02:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEOLOGISM (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)