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The word "wellrooted"

I'm afraid that if you are looking to establish "wellrooted" as a new word, I cannot offer any hope that Wikipedia will help. In general, our brief is to report on things that are already established - the criterion is notability, which is not a matter of opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." ' See, in particular, our guideline on WP:NEO#Articles on neologisms and the following section WP:NEO#Reliable sources for neologisms.

In any case, as an encyclopedia, we would not have an dictionary-definition article about a word (as opposed to one about the thing denoted by a word). You could try it on our sister project Wiktionary but they too have fairly demanding inclusion criteria such as "Usage in permanently recorded media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year." There is always Urban Dictionary - I don't know about their criteria or degree of editorial control.

So far as Wikipedia goes, if your campaign or cause develops to a stage where it has attracted enough independent comment to become notable in our sense, it could be the subject of an article, but this guideline would still apply.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 14:29, 23 January 2010 (UTC)