Talk:Gigantotomy

This article was nominated for deletion on 11 October 2012 (UTC). The result of the discussion was merge to Hill figure.

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Did you know... that gigantotomy is the art of carving human-shaped hill figures such as the Cerne Abbas giant (detail pictured)?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/March.

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The second illus. of the Long Man of wilmington, with the horse, is merely duplicative.--Wetman (talk) 11:30, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. - --Boston (talk) 11:34, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Gigantotomy

It appears that the term "Gigantotomy" is a neologism and hence the article may fail WP:NEO. The word was invented "half humorously" by Morris Marples in 1949.[1] I can not find it in any printed dictionary, nor in any peer-reviewed journal. Marple says that there is a real need for such a term. I think he is looking for "Hill figure". --Iantresman (talk) 23:11, 11 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]