Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swedish auction (2nd nomination)
unless further references are added sufficient to demonstrate that this is not a |neologism. This isn't a time issue, in my opinion. This is the fourth incarnation of this article by the same user since last November, and no additional sourcing seems to have been added since the first. It was previously deleted under this title and twice deleted under Swedeauction following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swedeauction|this AfD. My research at the time of that AfD (which I'm incorporating here by reference and link :)) suggested to me this was not a widely used term, and it still does not seem to be. Almost every hit I came up with on google news for "Swedish Auction" was adjacent, independent usage of the words (cf http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/12/05/entertainment/e142627S09.DTL this, referencing an auction that happens to be in Sweden) (I say almost every, because some of those hits are pay per view, and I can't verify that those do not use the term in this specialist sense.) This is also the case with a general google search. I get http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Swedish+Auction%22&hl=en&lr=&btnG=Search 36 hits on the term in Google scholar. Many of these are duplicates, and some of ''those'' seem utterly unrelated to this usage. Take the duplicated http://66.102.1.104/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:rAMxgfgqYYIJ:www.isnie.org/ISNIE03/papers03/bjuggren.pdf+%22Swedish+Auction%22 reference here, for example (it accounts for 2 of the 36). It asks "What would a carefully designed Swedish auction have looked like?" and is discussing a ''theoretical'' concept, not an existing one. Many of the other hits seem to be referring to something specifically called "the Swedish auction bankruptcy system"--we already have Swedish bankruptcy auction|an article for that. The creator of ''this'' article wrote it. I got 13 hits in http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Swedish+Auction%22&btnG=Search+Books google book (hoping to find the article's reference, but failing). None of them seem to correspond to this usage. (I thought I might have found something on the reference in a google search of http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=DAp&q=Milgrom+%22Swedish+auction%22&start=10&sa=N Milgrom + "Swedish Auction" (13 distinct hits), but http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=auction though it looked like a reliable source, it turned out to be a Wikipedia mirror.) Also, though I mentioned this in the first AfD, I would like to ''repeat'' it here: "I also found a .pdf from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:2k488ZF2bEYJ:www.infra.kth.se/BYFA/publikationer/engelskaUppsatserOchRapporter/55.pdf+Sweden+real+estate+auction&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a HTML version here) that lists the four types of real estate auctions: "English, Dutch, first and second-price sealed bid auctions". They don't mention Swedeauction or Swedish Auction or anything like, even though its a 2006 report from Sweden discussing auctions in Swedish real estate. That report states that with regards to housing auctions in Sweden, "The auctions are either conventional English ascending-bid auctions or executive auction"." The report ''does'' use the terms adjacently, but not with any indication that it is an official name for anything, as it appears ''once'' on page 13. (This particular document accounts for another of the hits on google scholar.) As a final point, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Auction&diff=prev&oldid=216134457 according to this article's creator, "Swedish Auction" is also known as "Multiple-round auction". Combining the terms "Swedish Auction" and "Multiple-round auction", I get http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Multiple-round+auction%22+%22Swedish+Auction%22&btnG=Search 4 hits--two of which are Wikipedia. Of the other 2, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:XmJ4K9Psb90J:www.dotecon.com/publications/csAuction.pdf+%22Multiple-round+auction%22+%22Swedish+Auction%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a one mentions the term once, on page four, but doesn't specify that it is a title: "Swedish auction report: For the PTS, advice on the introduction of auctions for spectrum assignment...." The other is a Wikipedia mirror reflecting content added http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spectrum_auction&diff=215726652&oldid=210986036 by this contributor to Spectrum auction. I strongly feel we need more evidence that the term is in widespread use as a title for this specific kind of auction to justify having an article describing it by that name
— User:Moonriddengirl, 17:52, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NEO (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)