Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dissociated press

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 no consensus/keep Turnstep 00:57, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dissociated press

copy and paste of Press FOLDOC, no reliable sources cited (Jargon File is ot a reliable source). Just zis Guy you know? 07:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Emacs certainly does have such a command.[1] However, in my opinion the topic that needs an article is markov-chain parody generation, not particular implementations. No vote Gazpacho 07:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, this seems valid, and I'd take the Jargon File as a more reliable source than, say, UrbanDictionary any day. JIP | Talk 07:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

UD is not a reliable source either. Just zis Guy you know? 13:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

• Move to something like Markov chain parody generation and generalize. —Keenan Pepper 10:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Emacs Dissociated Press mode is a significant diversion in hacker culture history --Dunstan ^talk 11:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Emacs Dissociated Press mode is a significant diversion in hacker culture history, but wikipedia is not a list of significant diversions in hacker culture history. Probably deserves a sentence or two at Emacs. -- GWO
• Comment - is there any reason this hasn't been blanked as a copyvio? RGTraynor 15:26, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

The Jargon File is in the public domain. The article even has an attribution at the bottom. —Keenan Pepper 16:50, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Isn't it GFDL like Wikipedia? -- Mithent 16:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

If so, somebody better change Template:Jargon. —Keenan Pepper 17:49, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

It seems to be a rather confused situation - this copy is public domain. -- Mithent 13:01, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Per Gazpacho, MC parody generation is notable, particular implementations are not. But it seems clear to me that this article is about the general concept, and that the name Dissociated press is genericized even if it was originally popularized by the Emacs implementation, so I don't see any reason to either delete or rename. —Blotwell 14:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator, GWO.

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