Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich uncle theory

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:22, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rich uncle theory

Prank and/or unverifiable neologism. 5 hits for "Rich uncle theory", most of which are from kiro5hin.org, most uses of which are only accessible thru the google cache. Also, the text is mostly word for word, so either the WP article is a copyvio, or the Kiroshin version is a mirror, making it useless as a verification of the term. Niteowlneils 19:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Ha ha ha ha ha... delete. -- BD2412 ^talk 20:30, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
• not funny delete--Doc (?) 23:06, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unverifiable. DoubleBlue (Talk) 01:14, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unverifiable, classist poppycock. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 02:07, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete original research. JamesBurns 06:16, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for all the reasons above. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:40, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete What kind of idiot would write an article like that? Alex Krupp 09:04, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

For those who haven't had their coffee yet, I'm the one who wrote the article. If you do a google search for "rich uncle" there are 40,600 hits, and there is even a site MyRichUncle.com. The name of the article is a neologism, I'll admit, but there really is a belief that in America everyone has a rich uncle. Rich Uncle Sam, Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Rich Uncle Pennybags, etc. On the Simpsons Monty Burns got his money from a rich uncle IIRC. Also, I'm the one who wrote the K5 post, so not it isn't a copyvio. Alex Krupp 02:19, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete dull. ~~~~ 19:50, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• "there really is a belief that in America everyone has a rich uncle." And your evidence for this is...? Note that the website you reference [1] and all those Google hits don't add up to your claim, any more than the 752,000 Google hits for "red dog" mean that everyone in the U.S. has a red dog. --Dcfleck 14:34, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
• Delete Original research. Unverifiable and thoroughly uninteresting for a hoax article -CunningLinguist 09:31, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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