Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Limecat (2nd nomination)

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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 was DELETE. Rje 02:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Limecat

Non-notable, and notability not established or verified. if I removed all the unsourced POV/WEASEL/OR language, there'd be no article left. It's cute, but it's still WP:NFT. wikipediatrix 18:11, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Strong keep loldongs
  • Weak keep delete It IS a well known internet meme...however I'm starting to agree with the other users, do we REALLY need an article on every internet fad? Wildthing61476 18:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

:I do think the article can be cleaned up quite a bit to remove the nonsense/original research. Wildthing61476 18:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete - change vote to weak delete I think the WP:WEB policy needs a violent attitude adjustment, and/or the bias of the WP project towards it's comical perceptions of notability. Original: This is a well known meme in the right category. Are we going to delete all the other memes next? rootology 18:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
42,000 hits on Google. rootology 18:16, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Did you actually look at any of those hits? Many of those hits are not about this photograph of a cat with a fruit rind on its head. Furthermore, the Google list craps out at only 761 hits before you get into repetitions from the same sources. wikipediatrix 18:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete "Funny" is not a reason to put an article in an encyclopedia. Information in this article is not noteworthy, and there's certainly no encyclopedia-worthy info (e.g. history, significance, etc). As far as deleting all other memes -- sounds reasonable to me. 42000 hits on Google means you don't need a Wikipedia article to get info about it. --JCipriani 18:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Non-notable. If WP is to be a serious repository of knowledge, why should this be here? Tx9 18:19, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • delete I think limecat is adorable! But limecat is not encyclopedic. Not at all. Limecat needs to go. It doesn't belong here. Repeat: I love limecat... but not for wikipedia. --Bouquet 18:23, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment I'm abstaining, but I want to comment that wikipedia never keeps the good stuff, like Brian Peppers, or other articles. Aughein 20:33, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete As much as I love limecat, this is not something I will remember in 5 years. Slotto 19:53, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment I will always remember the limecat. Aughein 20:32, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. It is but one of hundreds of funny pictures that I've seen on the internet. Not particularily notable in its own right. -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 20:42, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep unless other valid arguments come up How can you all use noteability as a justification for deletion of something you have all heard of? Unless there is some seriously better argument given here this article should be kept. Albiet limecat is stupid but then so is ytmnd and a dozen other things that are notable. wikipedia is NOT a paper encyclopedia, and it really should include articles on anything that has verifiable and potentially useful information to know about it. furthermore, just as wikipedia is not a crystal ball, neither is the deletion page, we do not know(although it seems quite obvious, that's not enough) that this stupid fad will fade away to total obscurity. The hamster dance has stayed quite some time, has it not(in terms of internet age). Deletion of articles on Silly Things does not make articles about Serious Things any better. i kan reed 20:54, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Why do you assume we've all heard of it?? wikipediatrix 21:02, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I've never heard of Limecat before seeing it on this page, actually. In any case the article contains no actual noteworthy content. --JCipriani 10:09, 28 July 2006 (EST)
  • Delete and Spay as per nom. Wow!! there's a funny picture of a cute kitten on the internet!!! how rare and unusual!!!!! I must email it to all my friends and colleagues immediately!!!!!!!!! By the way, I'm being sarcastic. Totally nn. Bwithh 22:34, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete for now, may become notable in the future, may not. Hasn't been in any news articles/media. Yes, it may be a funny picture and meme but hasn't become notable enough, yet.--Andeh 22:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete It fails WP:WEB and it's not notable. My first time hearing of it was yesterday when I saw it referenced in a different deletion, and I was toying with the idea of nominating it myself. The article itself can hardly be said to be encyclopaedic content - it basically identifies the picture. I have to assume this is because there isn't anything else to be written about it. GassyGuy 20:27, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep notable internet memes. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:56, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment WRT "well-known meme": Just because you know about it doesn't make it well-known. Even if you and 100 of your closest friends know about it -- it's not well know. 100 people is not a lot. For every person you've met that has heard of lemoncat or whatever it is, I can pick out a few hundred thousand people that haven't, including myself. --24.3.121.180 04:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and leave the meme articles to the professionals. Karwynn (talk) 16:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Additional comment - granted this may be "notable" on the internet since people have heard of it, but is there really much "knowledge" to it? All you can say without violating WP:NOR is that it's a cat with a lime on its head. You can figure that out by looking at the picture. Karwynn (talk) 16:24, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep It`s a well known internet meme. I think the article is useful but can be cleaned a bit... I don`t see any good reason for the deletion. --seifip 20:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Why do you assume we've all heard of it?? wikipediatrix 21:02, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
He's not saying we've all heard of it... still Seifip, it might be well-known, but what is there to say on t? It's a cat with a lime on its head? Bah, that's not notable. think it's not so much a non-notable subject, it's just that there is no notable information about it to be inluded. Karwynn (talk) 13:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I didn't put that comment there, seifip cut and pasted an earlier comment of mine and put it there for some unfathomable reason.... here's the diff. wikipediatrix 13:48, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Very Strong Keep NO!!!! INVERTED!!!! Limecat must live on eternally in all our hearts and minds. AshTM 18:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete just a picture posted on some forums. No evidence of any notability past that, or any media coverage. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Very important part of internet history. 138.88.114.187 23:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. It's a picture of a cat with a lime on its head. Whoop-de-do. If I want pictures of cats wearing stuff, I'll go to [[1]. --Calton | Talk 01:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep In fact, the very thing that brought me across this page in the first place was, a friend of mine mentioned, "Hey, remember that cat with a lemon on its head or whatever" and I thought, "Oh yeah! Limecat!". I went to the original site (limecat.net) only to find it in the clutches of an advertising sqautter. So I came to Wikipedia, which I expect to be a repository of our history, even the relatively insignificant. "Why do you assume we've all heard of it" is a terrible arguement; of course you've heard of it - you're debating whether or not to delete it from Wikipedia. That's the other thing I expect from Wikipedia -- if there's a meme I'm not familiar with, I will come here to find out about it. We shouldn't be the arbiters of whether or not something deserves to be remembered, just that, if it is remembered, and looked for, that the information be present for those seeking it. --Ojh2 04:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

--Calton | Talk 01:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Strong Keep HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS --Ojh2 04:12, 3 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.