Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thanatos Device

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 was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 00:29, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanatos Device

Joke weapon from The Onion (note source); talk page of article claims that the joke is well-known, but no sources for that claim. NawlinWiki 16:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, as much as I love the Onion... there is no evidence this has any wider notability than a one off article.--Isotope23 16:46, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete I originally speedied the article. It has been rewritten in a much more acceptable fashion. However, in spite of The Onion being the funniest website in the world in my opinion, this joke just didn't seem to catch on. Dipics 17:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom -- Whpq 17:41, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. DJ Clayworth 17:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Onion is awesome, Onion-cruft is not. ReverendG 18:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Maybe somebody can mention it on the Onion's own page. Uucp 19:48, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• I don't keep up with the Onion, but someone thought this was notable enough for an article; so make it a Redirect to The Onion. Danny Lilithborne 00:20, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - fails WP:FICT, this isn't even a "major concept" in Onion canon. All Google results are the Onion articles or people quoting them. --McGeddon 03:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Merging or redirecting doesn't make much sense. This is just a minor item in the history of Onion articles. -- Whpq 03:35, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Don't focus on the Onion provenence--the concept of a doomsday device has nothing in particular to do with the Onion. If there is already an article on doomsday devices (Dr. Strangelove, etc.), merge the thanatos and heavy-collidor information with that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.14.154.3 (talk • contribs).

Comment. There is, and the creator of the Thanatos Device page has already added a reference to it. --McGeddon 08:11, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - How much fiction-curft do we have on Pokemon. For once we have something worth reading. Either keep this, or get rid of all the *mon cruft. -- Petri Krohn 21:39, 3 September 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.