Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Me so horny

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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was keep. -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:39, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Me so horny

Wikipedia is not a repository of triva--nixie 03:53, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete, trivial, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 04:47, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Me So Horny redirects here. We might as well redirect them both to As Nasty As They Wanna Be, and merge the relevant information from here. (Something could also merge to Full Metal Jacket, but redirect there wouldn't be appropriate.) I'm not convinced the redirect-here at Me love you long time should exist at all. Samaritan 05:35, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Capitalistroadster, may you motor on forever. Strong keep now. Samaritan 16:19, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge with As Nasty... if necessary (the later animated references noted undoubtedly originate from the 2 Live Crew album anyway. Alternately, if there's an article on racist jokes, statements, or stereotypes, it might be worth noting there. 23skidoo 05:41, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment This was originally proposed as a speedy delete, but didn't really meet the criteria; it was not patent nonsense and context was provided (the movie Full Metal Jacket was mentioned) and notability asserted [1]. In cases like this I sometimes remove the speedy notice and replace it with a VfD; however, in this case Google showed a fairly impressive number of hits which left me unconvinced that a VfD would succeed. Therefore I merely cleaned it up and added more context [2] and notified the speedy proposer that she could submit it for VfD, which she has now done. -- Curps 05:57, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • There are 60,000 hits for "me so horny", and if you filter out all pages that mention "2 Live Crew" or "Full Metal Jacket" you still get 9000 hits (Google search). Some of these are merely phrases from sentences like "it made me so horny"; however if do the equivalent search for "me love you long time" again filtering out pages that mention "2 Live Crew" or "Full Metal Jacket" you still get 4000 hits (Google search). So it seems the phrase did indeed enter the vernacular and is sufficiently notable (and the fact that episodes of South Park and Family Guy cited the phrase indicates that viewers of such popular culture are familiar with it). Other popular phrases that have gained sufficient notability are present in Wikipedia, for instance Let's roll, which has its own page rather than a redirect to September 11, 2001 attacks. Wikipedia also has articles on silly phrases like All your base are belong to us and Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten and Hacked By Chinese! that attained notability. Finally, the phrase "me love you long time" was apparently widely used in massage parlors in Vietnam during the Vietnam War [3] and so is not merely some scriptwriter's invention. So I suppose this is a very long-winded Keep vote. -- Curps 05:57, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment Note the original author created this page as Me love you long time, but I moved it to Me so horny. -- Curps 06:00, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I oppose deletion, but am not in strong support of it's continued existance either. Perhaps merging into Full Metal Jacket would be best, but I don't see why it can't just have it's own page. -SocratesJedi | Talk 06:03, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • This is a tricky case. Certainly the term "me so horny" has become a well recongized meme, but I'm not sure that automatically makes it a worthy article in an encyclopedia. Then again, there is tons of complete crap that has been made into articles. Perhaps the best thing to do is make it into an article about the song (retitled as "Me So Horny"), and within that article mentioning Full Metal Jacket and the phrase's popularity elsewhere. -R. fiend 06:53, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Socially and culturally notable. --Centauri 07:15, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Un-encyclopaedic. JimmyShelter 08:28, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Extreme keep, agree with Centauri. —RaD Man (talk) 09:04, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep - I have rewritten the article so it refers to the song incorporating the material about the catchphrase , Full Metal Jacket and incorporating info on its chart success, the controversy over the lyrics and the obscenity trial in 1990. Capitalistroadster 09:52, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Definitely Keep - The article refers to a real song by the controversial rap band 2 Live Crew and clearly, correctly and without bias covers it's history and the controversy surrounding it. Plus, I've seen more deletion worthy nonsense being accepted as legitimate wikipedia articles, so therefore this should stay too. if not, then all those articles on porn stars and highly dubious articles and entire lists like "fictional religions inspired by brands of alien underwear on science fiction soap operas directed by one-eyed bedwetting directors with excessive ear hair" should also go by the same token.
  • Definitely Keep - important cultural history
    • Above edit by User:63.202.174.23 -- Curps 10:19, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Extreme Keep - It is a legitimate article, and legitimate articles deserve to be on Wikipedia. Scott Gall 10:17, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Wikipedia is a repository of just this kind of trivia. This entry exactly hits the right tone. --Wetman 10:22, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I can hardly believe this is on VfD.... Phils 12:02, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Encyclopedic topic, article well above average. Agree that the article name should be capitalised, to match the song title Me So Horny. Andrewa 12:20, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Of course keep it. Everyking 13:39, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep notable phrase (I've heard it referenced many times outside of Full Metal Jacket) and the song is notable too. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:40, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep - Speaking as a reclusive geek from a non-English-speaking country who's still familiar with the phrase, it appears pretty notable (sadly enough). --Kizor 14:06, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, good article about a song and a catchphrase. bbx 15:29, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, far from trivia, it is 80s cultural history. Stbalbach 17:01, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I kind of wish people would read through the previous votes before saying things like "I can't believe this is on VFD". The original article was quite bad. Only encyclopedic improvements (primarily by Capitalistroadster) made this worth keeping. Keep updated article. -- Plutor 17:27, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Original article link above now broken by move, it was at [4]. -- Curps 02:47, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep - Cultural important, relavent and interesting. --Froggy 17:36, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong keep. On the contrary, Wikipedia IS a repository of trivia. This is precisely the sort of information people seek from Wikipedia. IMHO, this was a bad faith listing: over 60,000 hits on google and the original stub never was a qualified deletion candidate to begin with. In its present state, you'd have to be out of your mind to delete this. Once again, VfD is not clean up... Keep and may this article continue to enjoy further organic growth. GRider\talk 17:44, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. If nothing else, the widely-published controversy over the song makes it notable. --FOo 17:59, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep — J3ff 23:29, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Clear keep as rewritten, but should be "Me So Horny". -- Jmabel | Talk 00:47, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep vfd sucky sucky ... me love article long time.  ALKIVAR™ 06:53, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, valid and known meme. Radiant! 10:33, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. I didn't know how these phrases got so widespread, nor the significance of the song (leading to a Supreme Court case). --Ben Kovitz 02:11, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. —Mar·ka·ci:2005-02-13 02:46 Z
  • Keep This phrase saved my life. --Jscott 13:22, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Me keep you long time. Carrp | Talk 04:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep! Extremely notable (and notorious) song. Original article was aparently about the catchphrase...oh okay. --b. Touch 18:33, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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