Talk:RECLUS

About the deletion request for this article

First of all, RECLUS is not a neologism, meaning a foreign word forced into the English language. It is an acronym, i. e., a word formed with the initial letters (or mid or ending letters) of a phrase that forms a long name for an object, person or organisation, etc. There are quite a few acronyms in English which are listed as bona fide encyclopaedic entries in the English Wikipedia, e. g., UNEP, UNESCO, NATO, SCUBA, TAFISA, etc. My intention is not to introduce a new word into the English language but to clarify to other readers what the acronym means. I was reading about the Ruhrgebiet, when I came across the name Roger Brunet; I looked it up in the En-Wiki where I found two un-described acronyms: RECLUS and IATEUR; each one was a red link, i. e., a word marked as an invitation to create a new entry with a description of its meaning. That is exactly what I did. I read a few things in the Internet, looked up Roger Brunet in other Wikipedias, and so on. Thus, I "discover" what RECLUS was and wrote a short description of it for the benefit of other readers. It is an entity involved with an interesting concept related to a European reality which has influence in Latin America, South East Asia and elsewhere: trans-boundary regions. And the acronym pays tribute to a geographer who was a pioneer of the trans-boundary region concept. I think that it is valid to explain in a short article what RECLUS means; it saves time to other readers. If articles about acronyms should not be created, then it is advisable to edit the article where the empty link is written, so curious readers, like myself, are not tempted to write dumb articles, waste their time and that of the reviewers. Lcgarcia (talk) 01:11, 20 December 2013 (UTC)