Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Diarrhea Song

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 Keep. --Fang Aili ^說嗎? 22:44, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Diarrhea Song

Yes, it's very funny. Yes, I sang it in elementary school too. It doesn't fit in here, however, because it violates WP:NOR and WP:NFT. It's more of a joke, really, and listing its appearance in media like Chappelle's Show isn't going to help it. I recommend sending it to WP:BJAODN. Brian G. Crawford 20:39, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or BJOADN if we're feeling charitable --Deville (Talk) 20:55, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I don't often use the delete hammer, but here, I see little point to keeping this article.Iceberg3k 21:51, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, this AfD is a joke, right? Immensely popular for a joke song, widely referred to all over the place. If WP:OR is a problem, then axe the OR parts or find sources. Egads. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 22:06, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep if someone can find sources. We have this here too. —porges_(talk) 22:14, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I hate to say it, but this song is notable... what is the world coming to? --Tango 22:16, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• The nomination isn't a joke, but this is.

Your new idea is kewl

Cause you made it up in school.

Wikipedia! Wikipedia!

You've got a brand new fad,

And you think it's really rad.

Wikipedia! Wikipedia! Brian G. Crawford 23:55, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

This song is probably older than both of us combined. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 00:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

What's next? Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts? Brian G. Crawford 02:08, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I'd vote keep on that, too. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 02:12, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

You mean GGG... is a worldwide phenomenon? I thought it was only found in New Zealand schools! perhaps we need an article on it :) Grutness...wha? 02:39, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

It's quite popular in Minnesota (aka "the Gopher State"), for obvious reasons. Iceberg3k 17:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

• STRONG KEEP: notable childhood song / notable part of childhood folklore. Sung in a major motion picture (as mentioned in the article). Although could use more sources, this is not grounds for deletion when an article (like this one) explores a clearly notable topic. Interestingstuffadder 18:22, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• STRONG KEEP as per Interestingstuffadder. Maybe some history of the song (plus some alternate lyrics) could be added. --Micahbrwn 18:57, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep we have less famous songs than this one, just because it isn't as high brow as some symphony doesn't mean its nn. Carlossuarez46 22:33, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep OK, I admit it - when I first put this article on here it was the early hours, I was too tired to do any more coursework, and I thought it would be a laugh to see if I could try to put as bad an article on Wikipedia as possible. However, I wouldn't have put something on that deserved to get deleted, that would spoil the fun. There are far worse articles than this. As mentioned by everybody else, it is culturally highly significant, even though it's so low brow it's in the Marianas Trench. The only problem is that it seems every other visitor to the page adds a verse, sometimes paying little regard to properly formatting the text. I daresay it does need some more work on it. One final thought - I have also added an article on a well-known novelist... this was before I added this one. Not a single amendment or addition has been made to that page, but just look at the history for this one! Does this mean that people think her literary output is of less value than 'The Diarrhea Song'? Or should we just get very worried about the state of society? Milvinder 14:40, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. I vote to keep the article. It is a children's "potty" song and is common. Yes, the article needs to be expanded with references but that just makes it a STUB. Please keep this article. John Mehlberg 17:43, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:V, with optional BJAODN. Stifle (talk) 21:35, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment -- although there is understandable difficulty in finding particularly high borw sources for something like this, i recommdn that you type "diarrhea song" into google. 23,900 hits and if you go to the last page of hits you will find that most are still talking about this song. This establishes notability in our culture and the presence of all these hits verifies this notability , at the very least. If you truly think this article needs more verification, add the appropriate tag to the page. But please don't advocate the deletion of something with such clear cultural notability. Interestingstuffadder 22:23, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Comment -- Revised article and added one printed reference to the song. Hence it is verifiable WP:V. Yes, this article cites primary sources but it is not original research. Please take the time to read the WP:NOR article. Everyone please read revised article. If you have specific problems, please point them out so they can be corrected or correct it yourself. Do you think the revised is worthy of being kept? John Mehlberg 20:14, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep. It's kind of ridiculous that something this widely-known and notable could possibly be considered for deletion. Once again, it looks like some people need to be reminded that Wikipedia is not purely a collection of things they find interesting. -Sparklemotion 21:40, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Delete per WP:NOR & WP:NFT. JackLumber 22:00, 2 May 2006 (UTC) OK, just keep it. The crappiest article on Wikipedia...

• Strong Keep Easily notable and verifiable. --Cheapestcostavoider 05:21, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Does it really hurt anybody? And shove that WP:NOR & WP:NFT up your, uh, well, where diarrhea comes out.

• Strong Keep As has been said already, easily notable and verifiable. Whoever put this up for deletion should be shown the guidelines again. Neil McKillop 09:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep People are putting up AfD's way too often without good reason. This is clearly a persistent and well-known song and a worthwhile piece of child culture, and neither of those policy problems apply to this article. FMephit 15:37, 4 May 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.