Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/No Pants Day

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The result of the debate was - one kept other deleted - SimonP 00:20, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] No Pants Day and Knighthood of Buh

On campus nonsense, delete--nixie 03:33, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

• Keep NPD as widespread and notable pseudo-holiday ("No Pants Day" gets 40k Google hits, I've heard of it before with no connection to UT). Delete KoB as non-notable student group. -- Jonel 04:39, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Nitpick: it's not a "pseudo-holiday" if thousands of people celebrate it. Of course, it's a very silly holiday, but that's not the same thing! ----Isaac R 00:18, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
    • Sorry, I was unclear. "Holiday" to me usually means "public holiday" whilst "pseudo-holiday" is what I use to refer to things such as Groundhog Day or the like. -- Jonel 02:55, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep NPD. NPD is not restricted to... Austin (or wherever the KoB are). It's probably true that it's observed only by students, but students across the nation. LizardWizard 05:06, May 16, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, No Pants Day is notable both in the United States and abroad (I heard it mentioned here in Perth, Australia the other day). Cedars 09:59, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Comment, I was born and raised in Perth and I've never heard of this particular day being mentioned or people walking around the streets wearing no pants - which would indeed be noticeable. Megan1967 10:27, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep NPD and expand. Particularly with regard to the geographical scope of NPD. I've just expanded Talk:No Pants Day. -- Smjg 10:56, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep NPD, Delete KoB. I've heard of it in the US, and a friend in Canada was talking about it this past week. It's a North American phenom at the least and if it's been mentioned in Perth, that makes it notale on that scale. --Mitsukai 13:59, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep NPD, Delete KoB. No Pants Day seems to have gotten away from the Knighthood and become a cultural phenomenon. --Carnildo 22:43, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep real things and both part of UT tradition, and known well beyond the school. --Brjatlick 02:27, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep No Pants Day (widespread tradition). Delete Knighthood of Buh (not widespread at all). Kelly Martin 04:53, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I was first familiarized with the group during my time at its originating institution, but there are celebrants of its No Pants Day and upholders of the ideas of KoB (in name not simply action), in a number of the places I have visited throughout the US. Even if I have been strangely lucky (or unlucky) in running across their incidence, it would seem appropriate to give KoB its own page simply as the originator of the apparently more clearly widespread NPD (with regard to the previous comment). Of course, if we were voting for deletion based on taste, I would be the first to vote against keeping it. --eleuthero 04:57, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - If KoB is a widespread group that originated (rather than simply "promotes" as claimed in the article) NPD, then I would say "Keep" it as well. - Jonel 07:01, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
• Keep #1, delete #2. Radiant_* 14:27, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep No Pants Day; Merge Knighthood of Buh → No Pants Day. —Markaci 2005-05-21 T 18:14 Z

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