Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Kyanka

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 Keep. --Fang Aili ^說嗎? 05:10, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Kyanka

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Vanity page. Worthless fancruft from members of the SomethingAwful forum. Non-notable personality RabinicLawyer 22:43, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep, He spoke at Yale and UIUC. He runs one of the most popular humor sites on the internet. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.119.178.96 (talk • contribs) .
• Delete, non-notable vanity page. incog 22:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete,Comment, already covered at SomethingAwful there is no need to expand into this extra page. Delete or merge what is missing into the article. Even better, just redirect to SomethingAwful. --TrollHistorian 23:15, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

  Comment, for the sake of consistency I am not voting delete since Eric Baumann has his own vanity page (which is pretty sad IMHO). Lowtax simply hasn't done anything notable outside of SA that wasn't SA related. I would still prefer a merge. --TrollHistorian 04:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

  Comment, it certainly is not out of the ordinary on Wikipedia for there to be seperate pages for people who are notable primarily or solely due to their involvement with a notable organization. It's unreasonable to expect articles about companies, organizations, etc, to cram in complete sub-articles about every person who is notable because of involvment with the company or organization -- Tyler 04:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, notable creator of SomethingAwful. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 23:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Should every webmaster have an entry? Irrelevant outside of SA --Curval 23:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - notability seems asserted to me. The article certainly doesn't meet my definition of fancruft. Colonel Tom 23:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Noted internet humorist. Spoke at Yale, UIUC. Interviewed by Wired. [1] --waffle iron ^talk 23:56, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Are you kidding me? This guy runs one of the most popular humor sites on the internet, as well as having been invited to speak at Yale and UIUC about his experiences. He has also been referenced in a number of video games, etc. --Liface 00:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep WTF is this doing here? Kuralyov 00:28, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Uh, how is one of the more notable Internet personalities... non-notable? Nice logic. Danny Lilithborne 02:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm hoping someone can explain to me how he is "notable" RabinicLawyer 03:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Well, he hosts one of the most popular sites on the Internet, with one of the most popular message boards on the Internet, which is also the source of many of the more well-known Internet memes. But I doubt this will satisfy you; what more do you want? Danny Lilithborne 03:39, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
    • I'm thinking there's more to this AfD than meets the eye. Consider examining RabinicLawyer's other recent AfD nominations for bad faith. Back ontopic, if Eric Baumann and Johnathan Wendel are noteworthy, so too is Richard Kyanka. Flakeloaf 03:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Danny Lilithborne. Gail Wynand 04:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep this is a bad faith nomination. No less notable than Drew Curtis or CmdrTaco. - Tyler 04:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Kyanka runs one of the largest sites on the Internet. That's pretty notable to me.The Bob Talbot 04:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment, I believe TrollHistorian and Incognito have some SA jealousy considering they are trying to get most of the articles about Something Awful deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.119.178.96 (talk • contribs) .
• Keep per waffle iron. --ElKevbo 04:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep --Bryan Nguyen | Talk 04:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - this is bad faith, and I begin to suspect ulterior motives on the part of the nominators. --AlbertHerring 04:21, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Bad Faith on nominators very likely. Donkay ote 04:24, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - Popular figure with a large influence over all these Internets. MrKeith2317 04:31, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I can't believe this is even being considered. --CygnusTM 04:32, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He's been involved in a couple of newsworthy things. Wired article on his Katrina fund/PayPal thing, AdBrite story was published in a decent number of newspapers, some college newspaper, Google picks up mentions of a mention in ESPN the magazine but I cannot confirm. Kotepho 04:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - There is no reason to delete this article. It is very related to internet culture. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Toebone (talk • contribs) .
• Keep per Col_tom Deleuze 05:06, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - From www.en.wikipedia.org: "Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. In some religious teachings vanity is considered a form of self-idolatry, in which one rejects God for sake of their own image, and thereby becomes separated from the graces of God." Yeah, I don't see this happening here. The Owner/Chief Moderator of one of the largest message boards on the internet (despite charging a membership fee) warrants inclusion.
  The nomination for deletion is in bad faith. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.184.241.118 (talk • contribs) .
• Strong Keep, creator of something awful, should be enough, but has made film, spoken at universities and been in the press after SA raised money for Katrina Victims and brought armour for souldiers in Iraq—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.229.172.160 (talk • contribs) .

Comment Saddam Hussein also bought armour for soldiers in Iraq. Countless other people of various backgrounds have also done so. I think that there are other reasons for keeping this article. Many of them have been expressed above. Colonel Tom 13:18, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment Wasn't it Zack who did that armour fundraiser?--Drat (Talk) 17:03, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. He's the webmaster of a highly notable website.—♦♦ SʘʘTHING^(Я) 17:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep The mark of this article for deletion, when the article for Drew Curtis, arguably an equally notable Internet personality has been left unmarked, indicates bad faith to me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.103.62.93 (talk • contribs) .

This guy has had a very big influence on internet culture, and has a large fanbase. Why anyone would want to delete his article is beyond me 83.161.39.210 21:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep This is ridiculous. The RabinicLawyer has added every single article that has anything to do with Something Awful for deletion. Voting keep just based on that. --The_stuart 19:09, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or, alternately, merge with and redirect to SomethingAwful. - Bloodshedder 02:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per William Graham. Kuzaar 19:57, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep - On the contrary, he is a very notable person. --TonyM ^{ｷﾀ━( °∀° )━ｯ!!} 17:27, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Lowtax is a popular writer and humorist, not just a webmaster. -- goatasaur 17:38, 29 April 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.