Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star Wars kid

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. -- BD2412 ^talk 20:38, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Star Wars kid

A fat kid with a stick - is this enclycopeadic? The picture in it looks like a copyvio as well A curate's egg 14:14, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep.' Historical article. Content is very well known about and wide spread. Pogue 14:56, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep.' The article was written in an encylopedic stlye, its content isn't offensive, and definitely was a major internet event that should be catalogued. Adamwankenobi 15 July 2005
• Keep. Wikipedians catalog tons of Internet phenomenon and this is one of them. Hansamurai 14:18, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Very wide-reaching internet phenomenon. If you see evidence of copyvio, you should send it to WP:CP. — Asbestos | Talk 14:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Note. This page (under another name) has already been through VfD process and survived: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ghyslain Raza. — Asbestos | Talk 14:31, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It was more than just an internet phenomenon and made international news. Bobbis 14:36, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, certainly notable and encyclopaedic in my view jamesgibbon 15:08, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable internet meme. As for the image, please review the long list of accepted categories of fair use under Wikipedia:Image copyright tags. Screenshots are obvious and uncontroversial. Postdlf 16:11, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable meme, already survived VfD once before. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ghyslain Raza. Hall Monitor 16:17, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, as long as everyone promises to stop comparing EVERY Internet phenomena that comes up to the Star Wars Kid. Dcarrano 17:40, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep of course. (for reasons stated above) CanadianCaesar 20:03, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Extremely memorable videos, and a google of "star wars kid" return 158,000 hits. Barneygumble 21:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep He may just be some fat kid but this is was big news at the time and wikipedia has chronicled less important internet phenomenons. Jtkiefer 01:23, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. What the fuck already. —RaD Man (talk) 01:29, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Not that my vote will matter much now. ·Zhatt· 05:00, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable internet meme. 23skidoo 06:04, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Very notable meme, if unfortunate for Mr. Raza. --Deathphoenix 18:27, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. As mentioned above, " This page (under another name) has already been through VfD process and survived: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ghyslain Raza ". Brookie, please read an article's talk page before nominating it for VfD. You would have seen that it survived deletion already, by a very wide margin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Ghyslain_Raza Themindset 01:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Why would someone want to delete this? As internet memes go, this one is a classic. Icarus 04:31, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Highly notable and very interesting. ‡ Jarlaxle 04:34, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I was referred to this article by New Scientist magazine (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7662). NS was using it to assist readers in understanding the significance of internet communications in social networking (a subject presumably dear to Wikipedian hearts). It is obviously extremely useful reference material. If it needs to be edited to avoid offence, or breach of legality (in which country?), then by all means edit it, but don't delete it! --Timonroad 01:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

• Question. How many more keeps do we need in a row before we can remove the VfD tag from the article? Themindset 03:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

• • • I do think this was a bad faith nomination and it should be speedily kept. But, it's not the number of votes that matters: We have to wait five days, and sometimes admin leaves the vote open for even longer. It's the waiting game. CanadianCaesar 22:20, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Survived VfD already; is notable — Image:Ca-on-sb.gif  UTSRelativity (Talk)  04:17, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

• Answer. I think we have to wait for the lag time.

• Keep. Wikipedia is a great source for history of the internet itself. As pointed out above, this made international news, etc.
• Keep. This kind of reference is what makes Wikipedia more than just an Encarta want-to-be. Bobak 7:15 (CST), Mon July 18th
• Keep -- a popular Internet phenomenon - Longhair | Talk 17:14, 19 July 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.