The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus to delete. lifebaka++ 01:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rice rocket (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

WP:NOTDICT. Wiktionary defines rice rocket sufficiently. Unsourced neologism. Dbratland (talk) 22:45, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. While it's a neologism, there are sources available: Google Books, Google News (filtered). These results are mostly about "rice rocket" as a definition of a car, not (always) a bike. Even more precision shows that it is definitely used in terms of motorcycles: books, news. The article should probably refer to both, and have (at a minimum) a seealso link to Rice burner. As a personal aside, I'm somewhat surprised and disappointed that it is so well-sourced. I wouldn't have guessed. tedder (talk) 00:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. -- tedder (talk) 00:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- tedder (talk) 00:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. If the article actually discussed, for example, the vehicles as a class, or maybe the sociology of the "sometimes derogatory" term and those who use it, it might be worth keeping. It is currently simply a dictionary definition (well, three really), and no one seems to have done much substantive work on it for quite some time. Cnilep (talk) 17:36, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. WP is WP:NOTDICT for WP:NEO's. Niteshift36 (talk) 04:26, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Rice burner Edrigu (talk) 03:29, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Why merge? Two different things. Proxy User (talk) 03:24, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –Juliancolton | ^Talk 21:45, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: It's a very old neologism, if such a thing is possible. While I agree all the above, it would appear to me that the article should be disambiguation page. At present it has information already in the articles it would disambiguate. I would suggest that it be moved to Rice Rocket (disambiguation), with content perhaps something like this:
  

Rice Rocket may refer to:
* Japanese-made sports bikes
* modified imported Japanese sports-cars
* Non-stop flights between New York (JFK) and Tokyo (NRT)

--Shirt58 (talk) 11:38, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: Disambiguation pages are normally used when multiple article titles are similar enough to be ambiguous (see WP:DPAGES). They tend to contain only a list of non-piped links. Therefore, Sports bike, Import scene, and NRT seems like an inappropriate list of pages for a DAB. In the spirit of Shirt58's suggestion, it might be possible to make Rice rocket a redirect to Import scene, perhaps with a hatnote directing readers to Sports bike. Given the current state of Import scene, though, I don't recommend this position - just trying to be neighborly. Cnilep (talk) 20:55, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as per Tedder. Proxy User (talk) 03:21, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Tedder.--Pink Bull (talk) 20:26, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.