Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Anson Ballard

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. Enochlau 01:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Joshua Anson Ballard

No content, but some significance

• Delete, if no more content added. The Hooded Man 01:24, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Keep it, because it DOES have content and it DOES have significance. "hoodedman", I don't care whether you like this article or not, but it matters, and it deserves to be in Wikipedia. —preceding unsigned comment by 24.34.98.199 (talk • contribs) 01:35, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Please sign your posts (everyone), and understand that new users votes are often discounted. I love the fad, (especially the Jesus ones), and find them quite hilarious, and while this is also tragic, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. -Mysekurity^{(have you seen this?)} 01:49, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - if this person is known only for the reasons stated in the article, it does not seem to be particularly encyclopedic. Also, the article seems to be borderline disrespectful to its subject, and it's probably better to remove it from Wikipedia. --HappyCamper 01:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete- He should be remembered for his life, not his death.- Marira 07:16, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This article bears some relevance to the history of Myspace. —preceding unsigned comment by 82.42.19.192 (talk • contribs) 16:25, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Then merge it with the Myspace article, doesn't warrant it's own. dr.alf 03:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, utterly non-notable suicide. While acknowledging that Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors or the angsty, we don't want to encourage attention-seeking suicides by giving them articles on Wikipedia. --Last Malthusian 16:59, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Sad but unverifiable. 200 Google hits for "Joshua Ballard" see [1] with no reliable sources verifying this information. Suicide happened recently but no mention on Google News see [2].Capitalistroadster 17:05, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No encyclopedic value. Zazou 21:43, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep But preferably merge with something else. Toastypk 03:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or at the very least merge into Myspace dr.alf 03:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Because this is a defining moment of internet culture. At least merge it with either the Myspace entry or something related to internet memes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.219.74.52 (talk • contribs).
• Keep See previous poster. 132.66.100.130
• Delete per Capitalistroadster. Wikipedia is not a memorial either. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:51, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, sockpuppet limit breached. —Cryptic (talk) 14:36, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Capitalistroadster, regardless of sockpuppet infiltration. Hall Monitor 18:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as it's not noteworthy beyond YTMND. The YTMND fad article is really all the most this needs. User: 24.9.10.235
• Keep. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bigkahuna (talk • contribs) 03:14, 7 December 2005 (UTC}; it was his first edit.
• Keep. His suicide and the aftermath is known to millions thanks to his exposure through MySpace. - Stoph 06:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • 11 Google news articles found here (some duplicate although different newspapers): [3] - Stoph 06:16, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't see what differentiates him from thousands of other suicides, really. He posted on Myspace, but so? Lots of people commit suicide; most of them write suicide notes; less people publish them on the Internet (though I 'know' someone on a forum who did, and don't think he needs an article here), but the fact that he did so doesn't seem to have generated enough interest to make him notable. --Last Malthusian 09:11, 8 December 2005 (UTC) P.S. YTMND interest, on its own (or nearly on its own) doesn't seem enough to justify a biography. They find anything funny. --LM
• Keep and Merge with mySpace. --Yoshi —preceding unsigned comment by 71.198.149.190 (talk • contribs) 23:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and merge with mySpace unless more content gets added. Digamma 04:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but don't merge with MySpace. This warrants it's own article, but would not fit into the flow of the MySpace one. Just put a mention and link in the MySpace article, and clean this one up a lot. Also, the hacking is notable too, not just the YTMND stuff. --192.122.237.6 05:01, 10 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.