Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GI got Owned

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The result of the debate was delete. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 17:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GI got Owned

Forum-cruft of the most trivial sort. Several Times 19:19, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It makes me sad that anyone would consider a web forum thread from the past week encyclopedic. Gazpacho 19:25, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: that's what I said, too, but the claim of 500,000 hits would... hell, I dunno. Whatever. Delete.jglc | t | c 19:26, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• It's been speedy deleted at least three times. Half a million hits on a forum relating to Mazda automobiles? Puh-leeze. Agree with Gazpacho. Delete one way or another. - Lucky 6.9 19:28, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• In that case, Speedy again. This is worthless. Lomn 19:30:56, 2005-08-10 (UTC) (always forget sig)
• delete. Nelgallan 19:39, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, speedy if possible. Martg76 19:52, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Zero Google hits (the only ONE is for "Gi Gi Got Owned". Zoe 19:55, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Agree with Gazpacho one hundred percent. -- CMC 04:35, August 11, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Made me laugh. You have to like the justification: "Almost every single Internet forum currently references this pwnage." uh uh. Dottore So 21:39, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, As funny as it may be, who's really going to be looking for this on Wikipedia in the future?. 08:49, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Forumcruft. --Pyroclastic 17:52, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this is ridiculous and not encyclopedia-worthy. Plus it isn't even a real internet meme, these guys just go to random forums and post it, much to the confusion of the locals, in order to get their 200+ forums count.

Keep it. keep it. its become too well known to get rid of

• Keep GI is a real meme. If you haven't heard about the original "GI" or come across any of the spinoff activity you are probably not among the many that frequent forums and chatrooms. Like it or not Wikipedia is a great place to research internet memes. The article just needs a tweak or two.
• Keep This may be a way to actually post about this new fad as it happens. As a member of several online forums I can attest that this is more popular then any other thread I've ever come across and everyone I know who's active has seen it. This is no less an internet fad then AYB and deleting it would be ridiculous. http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=117475 is a link to a forum selling shirts! AYB barely has shirts. Also, the forum it originated on is now up to 115 pages on the topic.

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.