Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Detention

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The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle 12:32, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Detention

Inter marked this vfd on February 24, but never made a subpage or listed it on vfd. I'm just listing it here; do not consider this a vote. —Korath (Talk) 00:00, Apr 3, 2005 (UTC)

• Send it to Wikitonary. Zscout370 00:14, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Wiktionary. Megan1967 03:30, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Please do not send this to Wiktionary. The "LME" at the top of the article, and its general format, indicate to me that this is a copy from a printed dictionary, although which exact one is unclear. Wiktionary is no more interested in copyright violations than Wikipedia is. Delete. Uncle G 16:01, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)
  • I'm not entirely happy about retaining the copyright violation in the article history, but since none of the text has been retained, and since it's not immediately clear which dictionary "LME" is and thus difficult to exactly pin-down the violation, I'm prepared to live with it. I'm happy with the rewrite. Keep. Uncle G 15:49, 2005 Apr 9 (UTC)
• Delete. However, it should be noted that an animation by the name of Detention (see [[1]]) ran for 13 episodes on the WB from 1999-2000 (and also appeared on YTV for a while, which is where I remember it from). William McDuff
  • So I guess this is now an disambigious page, since I am familiar with the cartoon (which is continued to be re-run on several stations). I remember this cartoon myself, though I will not consider myself a fan of ths show. Zscout370 02:48, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Not particularly, though if a new page dealing with the TV Show Detention is made, a link to the Wiktionary would be expected, I think, though I'm still in favour of Delete and starting afresh. William McDuff
• Keep, Cleanup. Detention is a wonderful tradition, without which we never would have had that genius work of art, The Breakfast Club... not to mention the best parts of Some Kind of Wonderful. Admit it, when you saw the word, you immediately pictured the typical room, the kind of kids who occupied it, the clock slowly ticking on the wall... it's pop culture, baby. It's encyclopedic. -- 8^D ^gab 08:23, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
  • And like that, it was an article... note how many pages link to this one, by the way - that's a sure sign of a needed article. -- 8^D ^gab 08:46, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
• keep like that. Kappa 00:14, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. -- Lochaber 17:17, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This article has a nice start; it just needs a bit of expanding and not so much focus on the pop culture aspect. --Sango123 19:26, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
  • I think the pop culture aspect is what makes it notable... the fact that it conjures up an image, and is therefore used to conjure this image by implication. -- 8^D ^gab 04:18, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)

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