Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Google's hoaxes

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 was no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 16:08, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Google's hoaxes

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Googlecruft? Like many web sites, Google does funny things on April 1, and for the effort they put into them it is well worth mentioning that in a short section on Google, and providing a list of URLs to these jokes. But this article is absurd, and it borders on copyright infringement for us to not just discuss, but essentially duplicate these jokes here on Wikipedia. On this page, Google expresses a desire for their holiday logos to not be used on other web pages, and I think it would be fair to assume they feel the same way about their April Fool's Day material. I recommend pruning this article down to its most essential material and merging it into Google. — GT 23:48, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete/Merge as per nom. Googlecruft, not encyclopedic Bwithh 00:06, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per nom. Notable enough to get a place in the Google article, not its own article. --Tim4christ17 04:18, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per User:Tim4christ17. JIP | Talk 10:38, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep googlecruft :) Computerjoe's talk 19:51, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or alternately merge with the main Google article. Yamaguchi先生 22:04, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep/merge, because deleting would be too party-pooper-patrollish. 87.196.25.151 15:39, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Why assume Google wants their April Fool's material kept off other sites? That doesn't sound like something Google would do. 24.56.207.144 16:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

And yet we see a link to a page in which they say they don't want their holiday logos used elsewhere... --Tim4christ17 21:56, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep There are Wikipedia articles about many other areas of humour, so why not this? I find this an interesting and informative article.Paddyman1989 22:36, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge as specified. --Lunar Jesters _(talk) 23:13, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I think this is a very interesting and funny article, and that it should be kept! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.86.74.12 (talk • contribs)
• Merge Doesn't warrant its own article, but shouldn't just be deleted. LactoseTI 02:09, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The article is useful for those who wish to learn about the old April Fools pranks of Google 68.192.133.246 22:03, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy keep Quite an informative list that would probably be hard to merge. Could do with a rewrite, image copyrights check and some references to be found, but none of that should be hard. LinaMishima 01:47, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Above changed to speedy keep, as original nominator seems to be suggesting Merge instead of delete, and this follows a different procedure to AfD. LinaMishima 01:49, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The Google article is long and needs pruning; this is a good example of a well-pruned section. Although the intro needs a severe re-write. Stev0 03:19, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Too large and irrelevant to merge into the main Google page, but catalogs amusing information that is not well-indexed anywhere else. I had not heard of any of these jokes, and I was happy to see links and references. Additionally, I mean, come on. Luqui 15:02, 12 August 2006 (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.