Strampop

Together with Chalee from Chalee's Soapbox, medical student Paul Cacciattolo who blogs at Paul's Post has failed to persuade the wiki administrator to introduce a new word that identifies a niche in the alternative rock genre. From Paul's Post:

..This new word, it must be said, is not something we came up with on the spur of the moment. It is not the product of infantile musings, the brain-child of students whiling away the time on some deserted quadrangle. We've come to feel that the word has an actual usage; more astutely, that its usage has a need for the word. This word is 'Strampop'. I will endeavour to explain..

Arguments have been volleyed for and against deletion, queries raised about its authenticity, and offence levelled at members of the discussion. Finally, in one fell swoop, the Wikiadministrator, embodiment of all wikinerds, everywhere, pressed his little button. Strampop has been erased from wikispace...The matter has even reached the eyes of Toni Sant, Maltese blog-idol, and he's put a mention of it on his blog, read by many, imitable by none.To be fair, strampop is a neologism. It goes against all that wikipedia stands for. Yet these five days, while seemingly fruitless, are far from futile. We've had a cause, and we've had excitement for it...