Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Badger Badger Badger

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 seems to also be just shy of a WP:POINT nomination. With a 100% consensus for keep I am closing this early.  ALKIVAR™ 00:02, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Badger Badger Badger

I don't much expect this nomination to succeed. But let me make something clear. I know people love this. I know it's fun. I also happen to know that it sets a precedent for all these other unnotable internet phenomena which barely effect anyone but a percentage of the bored internet population. Please vote with the encyclopedia in mind. Thanks, Urthogie 16:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep: I totally disagree. Consider how long it's been since it started, and the article is still being actively edited and cleaned up nearly every day. You make it sound like there's only this tiny minority of netizens that are enthusiastic about it, and nothing could be farther from the truth. The number of parodies alone is indication of how widespread and popular this thing is. There are dozens of flash toons on the weebls-stuff site, and hundreds to thousands of somewhat-popular flash toons scattered among other sites, but this one has shown incredible staying power. If this was a print encyclopedia on a bookshelf, where space is precious, then I might understand simply giving this one line on a list of popular flash toons. But this is Wikipedia, dynamic and expansive, and the popularity of the toon, as well as the "craze" surrounding it, make it worthy of an article. To put it bluntly, nobody's being hurt by this article existing, there's really no good reason to delete it, and such a deletion would seriously disappoint (and possibly piss off) a lot of people. - Ugliness Man 17:20, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep. As far as I understand it, affecting those other than a percentage of the bored internet population is not a requirement for notability, because the bored internet population is itself notable. - furrykef (Talk at me) 17:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. A visible and significant internet phenomenon accompanied this animation, and it is the most well-known animation by the also-significant Jonti Picking after his regular series. — Saxifrage ✎ 18:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Infamous and notable. MOD 19:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh and a Google test reveals the "phenomena" to score a 149,000, non-inclusive of any variations and spoofs. MOD 19:28, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Not every internet joke deserves its article but this one is really well known.--Tone 19:29, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep keep keep. This one is apparently well-known enough around the Internet community -- it isn't just something made up in school one day. --Elkman - ^(talk) 19:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep You wont find me voting to keep many "internet-phenomena"/meme type articles, but this really does seem to have entered the public consciousness to at least some degree. I do notice a rather distressing lack of verifiable sources, but in this case I suspect it's more a case for cleanup than for outright deletion. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

  Ok. I see this is definitely going to be kept. Question, though: Why don't we make a policy for internet phenomena? It would really help out at AFD. If there's already an established policy(besides the very broad WP:NOT), I'd like to know about it. Peace, --Urthogie 20:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

  Ass handed to you on a silver platter. :) MOD 20:45, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

  Comment there was some discussion of a MEME guideline (way overdue IMO) here: User:Badlydrawnjeff/Meme.--Isotope23 21:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

I left a comment there.--Urthogie 21:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep as per most of the above, this is not an ordinary meme. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 20:47, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep If you didn't expect your nomination to succeed at the outset, it shouldn't have been nominated. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 23:10, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

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