Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Off-topic forum

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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 of the debate was redirect to Internet forum. A hypothetical user interested in hearing about the phenomenon of off-topic forae would be better off being redirected to the main article than being faced with a blank edit box, so by the principle of least surprise it makes no sense to just delete without redirecting. So there, nyah. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 12:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

By the way, AfD is not the place to propose merging. Gah! fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 12:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Off-topic forum

Non-notable. Merge with Internet forum? Bezthomas 01:31, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete or merge the notable first sentence with internet forum. The rest is piled-on junk. Hedley 03:03, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep or merge. If it's worth reading about in internet forum, then it's worth reading about seperately as well. Primetime 07:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge. I agree that the substance is worth keeping (ie the first sentence), however I don't agree that means it should have it's own article. I can't see this becomming any longer than a stub, and it is better to keep all the information together at existing page rather than have stubs forking off for no reason much, in my opinion. --Qirex 07:51, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge per Qirex ComputerJoe 14:45, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect without merging to Internet forum, the one factoid people think is useful has been on that page for ages. The rest is just a magnet for random people to type about their discussion forum aliases. - Bobet 16:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete and merge definition with Internet forum. Examples are not notable and not necessary. -- MisterHand 16:53, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete dicdef, information already exists at target of proposed merge. Redirect if admin determines the "merge" requires it. (ESkog)(Talk) 17:59, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect, subject already covered at internet forum. -- Megamix? 18:35, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect to internet forum. If really needed, this whole article could be thrown into one or two lines under the culture heading. Don't need descriptions of each and every 'interesting poster' on every major off-topic forum.
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.