Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fucked Company

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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. -- BD2412 talk 05:18, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fucked Company

The Fucked Company entry is a joke being played on Wikipedia users. A few kiddies from the message board there think it is funny to keep vandalizing Wikipedia entries. Along the way they decided to throw in an entry for the message board they come from. Philip Kaplan who created Fucked Company is a minor notable person in the history of reporting on the Internet, as is his web site Fucked Company. However, the kiddies who keep vandalizing Wikipedia entries and creating Fucked Company entries do so to make a mockery out of Wikipedia. For example, Kaplan's younger brother (Joseph) is disabled. The kiddies keep throwing in references to Philip abusing Joseph, or to Joseph helping establish Fucked Company (neither comment has any basis in reality, they are both deliberate vandalism and inside jokes of the kiddies).

There is no purpose to the page. Why should Wikipedia have an entry about a message board used by a few dozen kiddies? (Above nomination by User:207.237.210.68)

It says it's not just a forum, but a website that became popular as a place for predicting which dot-com would be the next to fold. So I don't know. Everyking 2 July 2005 11:08 (UTC)

There is no original research. It is just a page with bullshit assertions that was created by the kiddies from the message board as a joke. I edited the more inane crap in it just now, but it still should go altogether. (Above comment by User:207.237.210.68)

  • Keep - this appears to be notable, just about, and the article is more or less NPOV. I am not convinced that this anonymous nomination was made in good faith. Naturenet | Talk 2 July 2005 11:12 (UTC)
    • Go back and re-read the historical versions of the article. The reason that you think it is ok now is because I just cleaned the article up. However, the article will probably be vandalized in the next few hours by the kiddies. The clean version I have created through my edits contains no original research. It is just a bunch of assertions, which is not what Wikipedia entries are supposed to be.
  • Keep Alexa rank of 3,172. Being a Vandal magnet is not a criterion for deletion, should be reported at WP:VIP. Dunc|☺ 2 July 2005 12:01 (UTC)
  • Keep, I concur with Dunc. Sietse 2 July 2005 14:14 (UTC)
  • Keep. Fucked Company is absolutely a very significant website, and that is what matters for these purposes. The vandalization is a different story. Dcarrano July 2, 2005 16:41 (UTC)
  • Keep. Concur with Sietse and Dunc. - Mgm|(talk) July 2, 2005 16:44 (UTC)
  • Keep. If persistent vandalism is that much of a problem, clean it up to a good version and ask for protection. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL July 2, 2005 19:38 (UTC)
  • Keep in present form. Decent article about notable website. Deal with vandalism in the usual ways. Dpbsmith (talk) 2 July 2005 21:00 (UTC)
  • Keep. This in itself is probably an FC troll. Fnord. --Discordian July 5, 2005 20:05 (UTC)
  • Keep -- notable web site which has led to the webmaster releasing a book on the topic as well. - Longhair | Talk 6 July 2005 12:46 (UTC)
  • Keep. FC is definitely a notable site. tregoweth July 9, 2005 03:08 (UTC)
  • Keep is the Correct Motorcycle. Klonimus 9 July 2005 03:52 (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.