Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flonkerton

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 of the debate was DELETE. Owen× ☎ 21:20, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Flonkerton

Non-notable joke on TV show The Office. Nine google hits. Seems silly to redirect to The Office, since "flonkerton" is neither mentioned there, nor likely to be. -GTBacchus^(talk) 09:30, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

No discussion whatsoever for the first AfD. Relisting. Please place new discussion below this line. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 00:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge with The Office under a possible "running gags" section. 147.70.242.21 00:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and merge if necessary. Peyna 01:18, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I think the correct article is The Office (US) since I don't remember it from the UK version PTSE 01:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Shouldn't be merged: not notable, probably won't come up in the show again. --Mrtea 02:12, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete ∾ Smells like a hoax, and if it isn't, it's still not worth keeping as a seperate article. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 03:02, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, five Google hits. User:Zoe|^(talk) 04:41, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete how come you guys got 5 google hits while I got 16 hits? Is my google better than your google? LOL. Zordrac 08:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

LOL sorry just checked. 3 of the 16 hits are this Vfd!!!!! HA HAHAHAHA! 08:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, clearly notable, its Google count has trebled due to discussion in a popular and notable web-forum[1]. Internet phenomena are notable; just need to rewrite article to reflect recent developments... This one'll be on FAC in no time. -GTBacchus^(what!?) 17:56, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Can you explain this better? I thought that 16 hits is pretty low. Only decent hit is A blogspot page, which hasn't been filled in yet. Zordrac 18:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I suspect he's taking the piss. The "notable web-forum" he cites is, in fact, this very AfD discussion. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 19:01, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Zordrac, you yourself said that the Google count had gone from 5 to 16, which is more than treble, and that part of the growth was due to discussion here. I was just rephrasing your post. The trouble with irony in cyberspace... delete, per nom, oh wait that's me. -GTBacchus^(talk) 19:16, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

LOL good one. Move this discussion to BJAODN. Made me laugh. Zordrac 20:23, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Doesn't that make it a good joke, and thus ineligible for that "honour"? (FWIW, delete running gag so notable that not even fans of the series remember it.) — Haeleth Talk 20:51, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Haeleth, when you refer to "fans of the series" you're probably referring to those of the UK version. It's actually from the US version (The Office (US)) which is why the UK fans wouldn't remember it. It's really not notable from the US version anyway though. Mrtea 00:40, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

I got the same hits Zordrac got. But if you look at the hits, you'll see that though it says there are 16, there are only 9 on the only page that comes up. Of those 9, two are to this page, two are to cafepress, that cuts it down to 7. One is to flonkerton.com, which does not exist. That leaves 5 Google hits for the word with the meaning in the article. I stand by my count. User:Zoe|^(talk) 03:02, 30 November 2005 (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.