Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Homestar Runner Wiki

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 KEEP --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:34, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Homestar Runner Wiki

It has been asserted that this wiki should not have its own page. A draft new version of the article is waiting here: User:Kookykman/HRWiki article in progress, but before it is moved, I think the issue of whether the wiki should have a page or not be settled. No opinion either way myself. Rd232 ^talk 12:54, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and forget about pre-emptive article deletion! Hr-wiki is the second Google result for "homestar runner," out of over a million results. [1] Notable, large and organized wiki. ♥♥purplefeltangel♥♥ 13:37, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• What a strange nomination. Well, anyway, delete and mention asa one-liner in the HSR article. This has zero influence outside of its readers, and is not a separate topic from Homestar Runner itself. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 13:48, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Homestar runner, as suggested. Since there's no content, I'd probably have just redirected this instead of sending it to Afd. Maybe the "proposed" version should be put in while the Afd is running? Friday (talk) 17:08, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Homestar Runner (and agree with the last sentence of A Man in Black's nomination). Not every wiki needs to have an entry in Wikipedia. The content of the Homestar Runner Wiki should be adequately explained in that wiki itself, not here. Since the HR Wiki is already referenced in the Homestar Runner article, I don't know what actually needs to be merged there. (Please note that I would rather see a delete or merge of this article rather than a "keep for lack of consensus".) --Metropolitan90 17:25, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep As I have pointed out in the original discussion this is a big wiki relative to the Homestar Runner universe. The original discussion also includes 2 votes against keeping, and 5 votes for (one of which is mine, 2 of which are intertwined in the discussion against, but I did not think it be appropriate to move to the for section. There were also users in that contributed to making the article that did not vote for one reason or another. It seemed to me that some consensus had already been reached. --Stux 18:09, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. If the other Wikis mentioned in the original discussion can have articles, so can this one. Smileyface11945
• Keep. This wiki is notable enough. Plus, how can you delete something that hasn't even been created yet? This hasn't recieved the time it needs to become a full article. - Kookykman (talk • contribs)
• Keep. Second on Google. Come on! E.L. Cool 18:28, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
  • So what? The entire content and potential content of this article could be replace with an external link that says, "[linkgoeshere Homestar Runner Wiki] is a wiki with character info, commentary, and annotation of the Homestar Runner cartoons and related works." It's not a separate subject from Homestar Runner itself. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 18:39, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect/Merge to Homestar Runner (or, failing that, delete) per Metropolitan90. No matter how high its results are, it's still essentially a subsection of the Homestar Runner universe itself, and that page is not quite big enough to start spinning sections of it off into their own article. --Aquillion 18:40, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge, definitely in that order of preference. This thing is definitely one of the most notable H*R sites, rather lively, has tons of contributors, and has, in my opinion, been one of the good examples on how to use wikis to do something relevant too. I'm kind of yes-no-maybe-dunno torn on whether or not the thing should have its own article, though, but I'm kind of more in favor of keeping it as an article. It can be summarized as a few paragraphs, but would that really be enough? If the Consensus says "merge with Homestar Runner", and the resulting section grows too much over the time, then definitely keep the article and stick it right there on its own article. Or you could save time and just move the temp article there and let it grow. But in any case, keep the redirect and history. --Wwwwolf 19:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
• Another comment. Isn't there some policy against deleting a page before it even exists? - Kookykman (talk • contribs)
• Merge and redirect to Homestar Runner. Note however that this article was already merged and redirected the last time it came up for deletion. -- TomPreuss 21:33, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

• Yes, but back then it was just a stub. --Stux 22:15, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

• Merge There is no article here yet. This is part of the Homestar Runner universe Jessamyn 22:34, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. I have moved the draft from User:Kookykman/HRWiki article in progress to the article space, per the request at WP:RM, on October 22. As this draft page was already mentioned in the nomination, I'd suggest that the closing admin of this vote should count all previous votes as though they were cast for/against this new version of the page. Eugene van der Pijll 23:23, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Don't count previous votes. No, we shouldn't count all the above votes. There are some there that seem to only mention the previous article, not the draft version. - Kookykman (talk • contribs)

• Merge I think that most of it is pretty much filler content that can easily be moved to Homestar Runner. On another note, is it just me or are just the users from HRWiki voting to keep it? Rogue Leader 00:58, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• that is my feeling too. Is it possible to vote Strong Merge? Jessamyn 01:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: That's not entirely true, I see names here I have never seen in the HRWiki. Besides, what is wrong with letting HRWikians have their own little space on the big Wiki (aside from HR page itself) to show off the wiki they are proud of working on! Please remember also, the other commenters have noted that this wiki has many pages on far less significant sites, wiki or otherwise. --Stux 20:44, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Ok, let me rephrase. A vast majority of HRWiki users are voting for its keeping. Rogue Leader 23:05, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect if we must, Delete if we can. An external link in the Homestar Runner article will suffice. flowersofnight 15:40, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep and don't merge. This is a very well known wiki with an Alexa rank of under 50,000 which is high for a wiki on such a specific topic. We've got articles on far less significant sites. Angela. 19:57, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Angela --JAranda | watz sup 23:32, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as per Purplefeltangel and Smileyface11945.—thegreentrilby 03:23, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. What is the goal of Wikipedia? To provide info about stuff! Keep it in case anyone is wondering about it! --daunrealist 04:47, 3 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.