Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hallucinatory realism (2nd nomination)
I'm not convinced by the sourcing that this is a term, as such. I may be mistaken, but it appears to me as if "hallucinatory realism" was used to describe a recent award-winning author, and then someone researched the history of the term, finding numerous instances where critics had used it in the past, thus constructing the article. The problem with this is that 1) despite assertions to the contrary it's not clear whether these critics were simply stringing together an adjective and a noun or using it as a term and 2) doing this verges on original research. The term itself, as a term, has not received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, as far as I can tell. The one exception is in an old dictionary about art, which to me suggests it was at one time considered something applicable to visual art, but not necessarily to criticism and commentary on art and the world in general, which essentially is what the article claims. I think we should wait until reliable sources begin talking about hallucinatory realism ''as a term'' and draw a distinct meaning around it. Until that happens, it's an adjective-noun combination that, while it may have been used numerous times in the past, has not become a term with an established meaning that has been discussed to a significant degree in secondary sources. Hence it fails  for lack of reliable independent sources covering the subject of the article, which is presented as a term and not simply a verbal construction
— User:Batard0, 09:09, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)