Talk:Snowmageddon

Notability

Just poking around, don't see many mentions of this name outside of Environment Canada and Twitter, and have my doubts about whether this is notable enough for an article.

Google hits=5,090 --StaniStani  21:43, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

It's been splattered all over the media for the last few days, but it'll probably die down soon enough.-Wafulz (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Short-lived Twitter-born meme? If it destroys downtown Toronto, we should keep it then. :P --StaniStani  21:51, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Obama used the phrase today to refer to the current 2010 blizzard; see [1]. Propaniac (talk) 17:50, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Other article

There also exists Snowpocalypse

70.29.210.242 (talk) 12:29, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Note that Snowpocalypse has been merged to this article.
— V = I * R (Talk • Contribs) 22:24, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Obama

It looks like the term was first used this year by President Obama. Though I would not be surprised if it was used to describe earlier storms in previous years. WTF? (talk) 18:30, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

It has been used for other storms before, but it was first used for the First North American blizzard of 2010 by Twitter users, then in a more publicly prominent fashion by Obama. As such, the article should at least include that reference in its link to that storm. --Chr.K. (talk) 13:54, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: No consensus. There appears to be a diverse of ideas here. Possibly the better one is to merge the data and leave this as a DAB page (as per AjaxSmack). This can be done by the users, no need for admin assistance.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 01:43, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

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Snowmageddon → ? — I'm completely open to suggestions on this, but we should come up with a more generic name for this article. The article itself is about at least both "snowmageddon" and "snowpocalypse" right now, but there's also "snOMG" and "kaizersnowze" (which I've just added as similar terms in use). "snowmageddon", at least, has prior usage, and the article includes a description of that. I'm fairly sure that "snowpocalypse" has prior usage as well, but the Post has definitely popularized that in the last few days. "snOMG" and "kaizersnowze" are really more neologisms which recently came into use due to the Washington Post poll on "the term they should use", which is referenced in the article as well. Anyway, I'm all ears for suggestions here.
— Relisting  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:53, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

 V = I * R (Talk • Contribs) 00:09, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Comment, A couple sources refer to it as snowzilla. [2] [3]. username 1 (talk) 15:54, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

• This article is apparently about "terms for blizzards made up in 2010". Is that even an encyclopedic subject? Ucucha 14:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
  • I would suggest that these terms be moved to Wictionary with an link to the North American blizzards of 2010 here at Wikipedia. This page would be deleted. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 02:12, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Except that these terms had been used before to describe other storms, so it's not true that they've been made up for the 2010 storms, since they've been made up already, and used. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 06:34, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

This is not an encyclopedia article. Move relevant info to articles on the individual storms and Wiktionary. Then delete the content of this article and make it a disambiguation page along the lines of:

Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse and Snowzilla are portmanteaus of the word "snow" with either "Armageddon", "Apocalypse" and "Godzilla" respectively and can refer specifically to:

• First North American blizzard of 2010
• Second North American blizzard of 2010
• Winter of 2009–2010 in the United Kingdom

. — AjaxSmack 20:05, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

• • Delete this dictionary content, per AjaxSmack. Powers ^T 17:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
• Take this to AfD. username 1 (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
  • A deletion of the material while retaining a dab page is not an AfD issue. It can be discussed here, and now is as good a time as any. — AjaxSmack 04:31, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Article split/merged; disambiguation page created

Article material has been moved to Winter of 2009–2010 in the United Kingdom and First North American blizzard of 2010. Dab page created. — AjaxSmack 02:52, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

All due respect, I disagree. It's good to split out the content to the specific storm articles, but the subject is certainly able to stand on it's own as well.
— V = IR (Talk • Contribs) 18:23, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Christmas Blizzard/California flooding

I have seen the term used to refer to the system that caused both these problems.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:53, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Earlier citations

"Snowpocalypse" might not have made it to the popular press in Canada until 2009, but it was in use in Seattle at least as far back as 2005: http://seattle.metblogs.com/2005/11/28/that-time-of-year-again/. Here's a citation from Usenet from 2000: http://groups.google.com/group/ne.general/msg/6a36931e5a66c205 --RJL20 (talk) 09:15, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

2013 Snowpocalypse.

The snow in the USA and Canada I've seen been pretty widespreadly been described as Snowpocalypse. 109.158.37.116 (talk) 08:52, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Earlier citations for creation of Snowmageddon to name winter storms on social media

I apologize if this isn't formatted correctly, but I do know better than to edit an article myself. Looking for your help/guidance, so putting this on the Talk page!

Greg Swan (me!) was one of the first to name forboding winter storms "Snowmageddon" on Twitter, back in 2007. Then Doug Hamlin and I set up live stream cameras, got it mentioned on WCCO CBS-TV News and it was a trending topic in Minneapolis as early as 2008 and 2009. This was well before it was included in the Urban Dictionary and then The Weather Channel started naming every storm. It was part of living in Minnesota and the ironic fear-mongering culture of being afraid of snow.

Citations:

• Original tweet: "Rain stopped for now but ominous snow is on its way. Many schools north of here closed already! April 3 Snowmageddon? Run for cover!" - original tweet, April 7, 2007
• Other tweets from me that back this up: Example 1 and Example 2
• Snowmageddon Live Stream on UStream - Feb 26, 2009
• My personal blog post detailing the story (yes, I realize this can't be used for citations) - Dec 8, 2009
• Third Party Article about #snowmageddon - Dec 8, 2009
• Another Third Party Article called #snowmageddon Part Deux - Feb. 7, 2010

Thanks for your consideration in updating the article with my involvement, and apologies again for my editing mistakes. -Greg Swan

Gswan12 (talk) 16:55, 25 October 2016 (UTC)