Talk:selfie stick

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RFV discussion: December 2014–January 2015

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Tagged by User:LoveLoveHat, not listed. Equinox 21:41, 30 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

This word definitely seems to exist—see, for instance, the many selfie sticks for sale on Amazon. But I can only find two durably archived citations, which I've added to the entry. —Mr. Granger (talkcontribs) 21:55, 30 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
I've found another quotation in a social science journal—however, all three quotations are from late 2014, so they don't meet the requirement of spanning more than a year. Should we call it a hot word? —Mr. Granger (talkcontribs) 16:36, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Seems appropriately labelled as hot word. DCDuring TALK 17:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
In my imagined to-be-eventually-written-down criteria for hot words, I actually explicitly exclude "inventions" — since I think these are more likely to be temporary fads than other neologisms. Keφr 17:54, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
There's a case for that, but this probably will either be deleted or no longer be hot by the time that gets voted on.
I found a cluster of cites from the website of various print newspapers and CNET that dates from late August 2014 and another from another one dated in 2013 from an Australian website that looks like it is web-only, but might not be. Do others share my estimation that none of these meet our "durably archived" criterion? If so, the "hot word" calendar begins with the 18 December 2014 Usenet citation. DCDuring TALK 19:09, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Just tag it with hot word. Renard Migrant (talk) 22:30, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Of course, but we need to check on it 15 months or so after the first cite (a book published December 2014) to confirm that it has become a lasting part of the language, unless you'd like us to flout that part of CFI. DCDuring TALK 23:17, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Like you said that's 12 months from now. Renard Migrant (talk) 23:33, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
Less if there the possible cites above are valid. DCDuring TALK 23:58, 31 December 2014 (UTC)Reply

Found newspaper cites going back to March 2014. Seems that selfie sticks became popular in Asia around that time. Whereas they didn't become popular globally until late 2014. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 19:31, 2 January 2015 (UTC)Reply