Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/80s Preservation Society

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 01:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 80s Preservation Society

Somewhat unverifiable. A search for the name of the alleged founder and 'society' gets no relevent results [1]. The only thing actually calling itself '80s Preservation Society' is a Geocities webpage [2] which may or not be related, but certainly doesn't seem notable. The few other mentions I can find are jokes (in satire articles about the 1980s, joking that such a society would exist). --W.marsh 15:18, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom -- Squiddy 15:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination, although I have a feeling we'll be reinserting this in six years along with a valley girl revival entry. Durova 18:42, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment ∾ Years ago there was a series of commercials here in USAia touting (IIRC) compilation CDs of '80s music. They had the same indefinable air of quality that permeates infomercials and commercials for Ginsu knives. In the commercials, a man sitting at a desk, surrounded by '80s paraphrenalia (Rubik's Cubes and the like), announced that he was the President of the '80s Preservation Society, and that he was offering the CDs as part of his efforts to "preserve" the '80s. I seem to recall that, somewhat later, there were very similar commercials touting the '70s Preservation Society. I've always presumed that these "societies" were completely fictional, but I can't say for certain that they're not. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 19:13, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn and advert per Extreme Unction. I remember those annoying infomercials, and the "organization" was a fake entity formed in some ad exec's head to sell cds. Youngamerican 16:51, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

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