Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Forking

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 Redirect to fork (disambiguation). Yomangani^talk 13:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Forking

• Delete: Non-notable prank. De-prodded with no explanation. Has already been deleted with prod in the past at Forking (prank). —Wknight94 (talk) 16:41, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Agreed. We don't need this forking nonsense. Emeraude 16:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete - I have actually heard of this prank before. If i was a parent, looking for information on this, I would come here and have found my answer. However, it is all original research, and no citations. that is the ONLY reason I am nominating for delete. Chris Kreider 17:07, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
  • You would not, in fact, have found your answer, for the simple reason that the previous incarnation of this article, forking (prank), gave different information about this prank, that directly contradicts what this article says. Both articles cannot be true, and, in the absence of sources that you can use to check the article, as a reader you have no way of knowing which incarnation is true, or even that either is true at all. (If you find the article from the Chilkat Valley News, by the way, you'll find a third set of claims about this prank, which contradicts both of these articles. It is reporting one person who claims to have discovered the information from "the Internet", incidentally, so it hasn't been fact checked.) Uncle G 22:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to fork, as forking is a verb used in software development and other verb forms of fork. i kan reed 21:12, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Then do you mean redirect to Fork (operating system) or something? —Wknight94 (talk) 21:15, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Probably fork (disambiguation) would be best. Uncle G 22:09, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to fork (disambiguation).Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 01:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to Prank. Note: Forking is not limited to Michigan and Ohio, as my fraternity house in Winnipeg has been forked by sorority girls on more than one occasion. Caknuck 02:24, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Fork (software development). That was the meaning I was looking for when I came to this page. — JeremyTalk 03:41, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to fork (disambiguation) Although i am vaugely aware of the software development aspect of forking i still think the majority of people will initally think of "froking" in a tradional sense and so merely adding Fork (software development) to that disambig page should be sufficient and efficient. –—(chubbstar)^{— talk | contrib | 20:26, 2 November 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.