Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crazy german guy

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 16:25, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crazy german guy

Seems fairly low in the notability stakes, certainly by internet meme standards (compare ~500 GHits for "Crazy German Guy" video to >1,000,000 for "Numa numa" video" or >400,000 for "Star Wars kid", which I suppose are somewhat comparable internet phenomena). This shrieking, hamming-it-up-for-the-camera kid was of minimal note at best when I first encountered it some months back, and I see nothing to suggest this has caught on in any major way, nor that this will be remembered years from now. ~Matticus ^T_C 12:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep google came up with 5,090,000 results for "crazy german kid" (you tried "guy"). I think it is notable (even though it's terrible acting). The 7th result is "Angry German Kid vs Numa Numa Guy". Anyway, I think that enough people would have heard of this for it to be worth having. James086 13:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• You can't have done an exact phrase search there - "Crazy German Kid" video (note the quotes) gets 13,400. Better than 500, certainly, but still fairly low for a supposedly widespread internet phenomenon. Numa Numa has had mainstream TV coverage, as has Star Wars Kid, while I see no evidence of anything like the same level of penetration into the mainstream from this. ~Matticus ^T_C 15:58, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. nn, no possibility of expansion, and the title is too vague. --Aaron 14:09, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not notable enough. --Richmeister 18:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I've seen the videos, I know a lot of people who have seen the videos, and they keep doing more and more videos of this insane kid. If kept, capitalize "German".--Húsönd 18:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Addendum: Yeah, better move to "Crazy German kid".--Húsönd 18:57, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Changed my stance to Neutral. The popularity of these videos is likely to be ephemeral.--Húsönd 18:18, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I've heard of this and even seen it, but Wikipedia is not the place to keep track of silly internet videos. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:00, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• I am the author of Crazy german guy's article. While I am starting to understand that maybe this isn't quite notable enough, personally I'd rather not have it deleted. It took me ages to watch a subtitled video of it and copy word for word into the dialog section, and I don't want to have all that work deleted. (PS. If in order to keep it I must change the title to Crazy German kid, how do I do this? I am fairly new to wikipedia and don't know how to change article titles once written.) --Fastzander 8:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• You can just copy the current contents of your article and paste it onto notepad (or equivalent), if you're worried about the article being deleted. If you want to move the article (and I don't recommend you do it until the AfD period is over) then you can use the move button at the tabs on top of the page. But seriously, all of the information comes from the video or from your own keyboard, so it's pretty much original research. ColourBurst 01:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• I should also add that transcribing subtitles directly from another source of which you are not the author is a potential copyright infringement, so would probably have to be removed from the article in any case. If you want to preserve your work however, you could copy it over to Encyclopedia Dramatica, another MediaWiki-based project which thrives on internet memes and the like. ~Matticus ^T_C 07:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete --Peta 01:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as there aren't reliable sources to document this. GassyGuy 04:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, like most Internet ephemera. This one fails WP:NOR and WP:RS to start with, not to say anything about notability, or the lack thereof. Sandstein 17:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, for above reasons. — Tivedshambo (talk) 15:34, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.