Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirate joke

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 shiver me deletion button, mateys. bainer (talk) 13:29, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pirate joke

Just another "Foo bar: A bar which is foo" article. There's nothing here but that and a wholly unencyclopedic (and mildly US-centric) list of pirate jokes. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of weak jokes. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 05:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC) KEEP!!!! Pirate Jokes is an essential resource to American pop cultuARRRRRR!

• Keep - Pirate jokes arrrrrrrrrr sufficiently noteworthy. --Cyde Weys 05:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

ARRRRRRR!

• DELETE - no value, this is site for information NOT JOKES
• Delete per nom, WP:NOT. My prediction: it will not survive this Arrrrrticles for deletion. It already has BJAODN wikibooks aspirations anyway, see the talk page. Esquizombi 06:13, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - Then we need to delete Joke also. Monkeyman^(talk) 06:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Ignoring the issue that lists of jokes aren't all that encyclopedic, these jokes are non-notable even in comparison with most jokes on other articles. --Tifego 06:19, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and WP:NOT. Types of jokes belong under Joke, with a "notable" example perhaps, but lists of jokes don't belong at all. Slowmover 06:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and WP:NOT, no BJAODN. --Terence Ong 06:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - I think an article on pirate jokes is a good resource for non-English speakers. --Cyde Weys 06:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a joke book. Is there a joke book at WikiBooks? If so, it could be transwikied into that. --Midnighttonight 06:39, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Pirate jokes are inherently funny, but a list of them is not inherently encyclopedic. Should be treated in a cursory fashion in the Joke article. Not a BJAODN candidate, since these are not "bad" jokes or nonsense, per se. (By the way, "What did the pirate say about the steering wheel on his pants?" / "It be driving me nuts!" ... *tumbleweeds roll by*) --Kinu ^t/_c 07:18, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Send them to Davy Jones's Lockarrrr! err, I mean... that is... Delete, per Slowmover and Terence Ong, et. al... Class of jokes deserves passing mention (and maybe a link to an external list?) in Joke but these are not BJAODN material and not encyclopedic. ++Lar: t/c 07:35, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into something? There ought to be something. Pirate jokes deserve a mention somewhere, I think. Crzrussian 07:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment, I'm waiting for Herostratus's opinion -- Samir (the scope) 08:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Send to Davy Jones' Locker arr delete my hearrties. Capitalistroadster 09:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. A = A dictdef. Also, Wikipedia shouldn't be a joke-list. -- Saberwyn 10:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Cleanup I suggest the jokes are removed or perhaps one or two are kept as 'examples' then you could keep or transwiki Computerjoe 11:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• And who pray tell is going to do that job? --kingboyk 11:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• I will. --Cyde Weys 18:24, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete not encyclopedic. --kingboyk 11:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete no content, without the examples its only one sentence -- Astrokey44|talk 15:46, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• delete unencyclopedic. not funny enough for BJAODN Niffweed17, Destroyer of Chickens 15:49, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Send to Davy Jones's locker, arrr! JIP | Talk 17:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep; Pirate jokes arrrrrr a notable cultural phenomenon, at least in the U.S. What other arrrticle would cover such a thing? Grandmasterka 17:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Walk the plank. Not encyclopedic, Wikipedia is not a collection of jokes (except for here) Average Earthman 18:37, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, unless someone can actually write an arrrrrticle about pirate jokes, not a list of them. Laur 19:06, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. If anywhere, these would belong on Wikibooks. They don't, however, belong on Wikibooks either. —Cryptic (talk) 19:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — Foo baaaaaar... — RJH 20:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This article's not causing any problems. Let it be. -ikkyu2 (talk) 20:59, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Other than to lower the overall quality of the encyclopedia by some unmeasurable amount, no. --Calton | Talk 05:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
    • I don't agree. I also don't appreciate that someone edited my opinion to make a joke out of it. I don't view the deletion process as a joke.ikkyu2 (talk) 18:34, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unencyclopedic as written. An article shouldn't be a list of jokes. It could be recreated or rewritten to cover verifiable information about pirate jokes, but this version has got to go. --W.marsh 21:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Comment What on earth could be verifyable about a joke? Georgewilliamherbert 02:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete unless pirate jokes can be shown to be an identifiable genre, then rewrite it as a list of jokes containing no actual jokes. Fuggedaboutit, delete. ProhibitOnions 21:36, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Jokes should go on WP:BJAODN Pikachu9000 21:54, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - only if they arrrrrr funny enough. ++Lar t/c 22:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment - Hahaha! It's not that funny. Pikachu9000 00:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Comment - Cyde, people have walked the plank for less... ([1]) Snickarrrrr. ++Lar: t/c 01:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into Joke in condensed form. Hbackman 23:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• delete, pirate jokes arrrrrr a notable enough topic, but this is just a list of jokes, not an article. Snargle 02:30, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above --Khoikhoi 03:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Calton | Talk 05:51, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per good puns above. If Cyde and the others want to clean it up and make it encyclopedic go ahead. But be warned mateys, if this article gets kept and doesn't get cleaned up, the Curse of the Black Pearl will seem like nothing compared to the horrible fate awaiting you. JoshuaZ 07:09, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Hahaha, I like american jokes, but these are the best :-) --MaNeMeBasat 08:16, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikibooks, or delete. Stifle 01:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, no encyclopedic content here. Christopher Parham (talk) 01:22, 14 March 2006 (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.