Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Average frustrated chump (2nd nomination)
per Edison. I am the main author of the article. I voted to delete in the last AFD, because I was unsatisfied with the quality of the article and was having conflicts with other users maintaining it. However, in light of its large number of appearances in Google News that Edison points out, the term has clearly gained a lot of mainstream popularity recently. There are reliable sources on it, so it cannot be excluded on the basis of . Contrary to the nom, it is simply not true that "usage of the word is confined to pickup guides and supporters of the "pickup community." See this article in the http://www2.nysun.com/article/65300 New York Sun which finds the term useful for describing Steve Carrell's role in the 40-year-old Virgin: ''To borrow some terminology from VH-1's smarmy reality series 'The Pick-Up Artist," Mr. Carell embodies an Average Frustrated Chump who transforms himself into an unlikely babe magnet through the magic powers of emotional revelation.'' While there isn't enough justification to delete the article, it is certainly in need of improvement. (I might support merging it into Seduction Community, except that the latter article is already very long and getting longer
— User:SecondSight, 09:20, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NEO (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)