Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Usenet spammers

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. Voice of All^T|@|ESP 00:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of Usenet spammers

A nearly empty list about a non-notable subject. Delete. karmafist 16:22, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - WikiSpam about UseNet Spam. Endomion 17:21, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Isn't spam actually on of the most notable things about Usenet? It seems that the 1988 spam claimed as the earliest one in this article isn't mentioned in Newsgroup spam. Move this to some useful location such as Usenet spam, merge with Newsgroup spam and redirect there. Tupsharru 17:30, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, and do not merge, unless a List of Wikipedia vandals or Wikipedia POV pushers is in the works. In short, the phenomenons are notable, but the individuals perpetuating them are not. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 18:36, Dec. 25, 2005
• Delete. not notable at this scale. --Improv 18:38, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, might as well put this up for speedy at this rate --Appleboy ^Talk 18:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Pavel Vozenilek 05:47, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge the 1988 spam reference to Newsgroup spam since it is backed with a source (the actual message in Google's archieve) and then delete the remainder of article. There are other organizations who provide lists of spammers - let's leave that job to them as only the history, methodology, & impacts of spamming are encyclopedic. -- JLaTondre 17:36, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Usenet history is notable.  Grue  17:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. True, but that is covered in Newsgroup spam as well. -- JLaTondre 17:55, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
• Usenet history is not being voted upon. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 18:05, Dec. 26, 2005

But these two articles don't contain a list of Usenet spammers! So, by deleting this list we're erasing useful information from Wikipedia. And that, IMHO, is a bad thing.  Grue  19:43, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• If you want a list, that's also in History of spamming. As for the list in this article, the two blue links are both in Newsgroup spam & History of spamming and the red links are both unsourced entries by IP editors. Merge the 1998 reference as I recommended and all the verified information is still kept. -- JLaTondre 14:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. - NeoJustin 05:40, December 27, 2005 (UTC)

• Why?  Grue  08:46, 27 December 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.