Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bubb Rubb

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. - Mailer Diablo 19:53, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bubb Rubb

He's notable, erm, because Internet forums talk about him saying "Whistles go WOOO!". This isn't encyclopedic. Delete. The Land 10:22, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 743 already displayed." There's a bunch of linkfarming that name from "Jenny2.com." Doesn't seem to be encyclopedic. FCYTravis 10:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - it's as notable as the other Internet memes. --Quarl 10:50, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Quarl. 28,600 Google hits [1] seems like plenty; it's comparable to the others listed at Internet phenomenon. –Sommers ^(Talk) 10:59, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - It's not really 28,600, though. Only 743 unique hits. FCYTravis 11:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - While kind of obscure, it's decently written and has enough information on the topic to be valid. --Aleron235 14:24, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Agnte 14:29, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Sommers ComputerJoe 14:58, 18 December 2005 (UTC) 15:11, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. All this internet "phenomenon" cruft is ridiculous. They fade away even before the article creators can hit Save. Flyboy Will 17:47, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - This Internet phenomenon "cruft" is very useful. It's here for the same reason that all the other pop-culture "cruft" is in Wikipedia. A million people are "in" on something; Wikipedia lets you in.-Quarl 21:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Comment: I agree completely. When I come to a page like this, I ask myself whether I'm (A) glad to have the information available or (B) annoyed and distracted by the page. In this case, the answer is "A". Sure, the subject is mainly just a dumb joke, but if I came to Wikipedia trying to figure out what on Earth the joke was about, I'd want this page to be here. –Sommers ^(Talk) 01:46, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete r3m0t ^talk 00:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Aleron235 Colonel Cow 02:40, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, 28,600 Google hits / 743 unique hits is enough, isn't it? Can't sleep, clown will eat me 08:30, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Quarl @ 21:29 A 02:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I believe good ol' Bubb deserves this little bit of space in Wikipedia as it not only makes a statement about Internet memes/personalities, but also to give people in the future additional context in regards to a real person and situation, in a real place, that might give them a better idea of what really happened. --Froggy 02:43, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• keep this please it really is a famous meme on the internet not cruft Yuckfoo 03:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This issue is about what Wikipedia is. Mr. Rubb is, and for better or worse will always be, a pop culture reference. People who want information on these kinds of things will always prefer a thoughtful, sorted, centralized space to self-sorting through Google searches. However, without a huge breadth of articles such as this, Wikipedia is just a an open-text version of any other encyclopedia. As such, it is vulnerable to criticism that it (a) is open to tampering, and (b) lacks the professionalism of other encyclopedic sources. Articles such as this, however, give Wikipedia its own space among large pools of organized information, and thereby give Wikipedia a utility that it will otherwise, in time, come to lack.
• Keep famous enough to make MTV as a "news story" lol... he's worth keeping on wiki.  ALKIVAR™ 00:28, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I love this and believe...oh...wait...I thought it said bum rub. Count me out guys. Sorry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.0.142.29 (talk • contribs) 17:44, 21 December 2005
• Keep. It's internet history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.185.10.18 (talk • contribs) 22:03, 21 December 2005
• Keep. Bubb Rubb is all that is beautiful on the internet... per AlanzoB.
• Keep per User:Froggy --LBMixPro^{<Speak|on|it!>} 09:36, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, WOO!!! My girlfriend also raises the point that these whistling modifications may handicap ones ability to evade law enforcement. —RaD Man (talk) 19:14, 23 December 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.