Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St Skeletor's Day

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 23:58, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] St Skeletor's Day

Not notable. DJ Clayworth 16:44, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• It even gets the month wrong. By next year, this will have been forgotten and another comedian will invent another "anti-Valentine" Day. This is not Breakup Day, nor anywhere near it. Delete. Uncle G 17:22, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)
• It does, doesn't it? Braino, but not actually relevant to whether the page should exist. I won't really mind if it does get deleted; it's just something several people have mentioned to me recently, and seemed to be something someone might look up. Abstain - I made it, but I don't care if you don't think it should be there. PS. I've never heard of Breakup Day; as a common English phrase it's impossible to Google-test, but the first google hit on "Breakup Day" is unrelated, and the second has it on a different date and appears to be an independent invention. Looks non-notable to me as well. - TSP 17:30, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I was working on the assumption that the error was Richard Herring's. Uncle G 05:07, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC)
    • Ah, I see - you're assuming there that I heard about it from a Richard Herring show (I don't think I've ever seen one). I heard about it from people who intend to celebrate it, and only found out it was a Richard Herring reference from another page that referenced it. I accept that they may be the only ones :-) Though, by analogy, how many people actually 'celebrate' Breakup Day (particularly as a holiday, which the Holiday page seems to think it is)? '"St Skeletor's Day" February 15' gets 515 hits, and "St Skeletor's Day" isn't the sort of phrase which would appear by accident. '"Breakup day" February 13' gets 122, several of which STILL aren't about the Breakup Day that gets a Wikipedia article.... This isn't relevant to whether this is notable, I'm just taken aback by the non-notability of the thing that was proposed as notable in comparison to it :-) TSP 21:00, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable, trivial. Megan1967 23:34, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete article about a joke. Funny, I never associated Skeletor with cynical sarcasm. Gazpacho 00:26, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. Though some kind of "opposing views" section in St. Valentine's Day wouldn't hurt. --Idont Havaname 04:05, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• No vote of yet, but suggest merging this slight stub into a section of He-Man (where Skeletor now redirects) if it is judged notable enough. -- Smerdis of Tlön 16:20, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Mmm, sensible if there was a page on Skeletor himself, but it's third-hand relevance by the time you get to the He-Man page. Probably better to delete than to merge there. TSP 18:33, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep in as this is a perfectly fine definition of something that's certainly notable to all the people I've met. Not sure this was entirely a joke to start off with anyway. This has been around as an idea for ages (10 years?), and votes to delete so quickly seem a bit summary. I'd say leave it around for a bit and see if others contribute then vote it out. Personally I'd appreciate a page of explanation to point people to around this time of year. -- User:Masu17:Masu17 15:35, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • While I hate to do this to my own article's lone supporter, I feel bound to point out that that is Masu17's first edit. Still, he's no-one's sockpuppet (certainly not mine, and the article doesn't actually have any other supporters for him to be a sockpuppet of). TSP 15:51, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Nope, I'm a real person who's been using the Wiki for a fairly long time. Never felt qualified to comment on anything before though. -- User:Masu17:Masu17 23:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, I've heard of it. Grue 17:16, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, or merge into He-Man. -- The Anome 17:17, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC).

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