Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suicide Squid

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 not to keep, as not notable on its own. Mention at Squiddy Awards.--Ezeu 15:54, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suicide Squid

nn comic cruft. ⇒ SWATJester ^Ready Aim _Fire! 05:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Suicide Squid is a notable meme/Internet phenomenon which still retains interest 15 years after it was created. --Metropolitan90 06:57, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, in-joke centering around a single Usenet group, with little reach outside of it. Andrew Levine 08:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Bad joke, no-one cares. -- GWO
• Delete per above. DarthVader 12:02, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete single joke on a single unsenet group. Gets just 227 unique Google hits, the vast majority of which are just lists of every newsgroup (there's an alt.fan.suicide-squid which hasn't had an on-topic message in 5+ years). Not much of an "internet phenomenon", even if we relax the standards to consider its oldness. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's so notable and retains so much interest that there hasn't been a newsgroup message on the newsgroup for it in 5 years. Gee golly wow wahoo gosh. Proto||type 13:01, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Non notable enough to sustain a WP article. Stephen B Streater 14:22, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep It's true information about an old joke. Deleting the article because the joke isn't told much anymore smacks of some version of recentism. Keeping accurate information in the encyclopedia doesn't hurt anything and might help.—Preceding unsigned comment added by TheronJ (talk • contribs) (Sorry about forgetting to sign - TheronJ 15:11, 23 May 2006 (UTC))
• Delete per most of the comments above. NN old joke. Fan1967 15:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or merge with Squiddy Awards. Fairly important piece of netlore that explains the title of the annual Usenet comic awards. Smerdis of Tlön 16:12, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable fancruft. -- stubblyhead | ^T/_c 16:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's not a huge cultural phenomenon, but it has its place and does occasionally show up in places other than the Usenet groups. Plus, there's what Theron said -- just because it's not told much any more doesn't make it cease to exist. Also it's a prime example of a fictional fictional character. BobGreenwade 16:33, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, doesn't assert notability. RexNL 17:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge per Smerdis. - CNichols 22:12, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Ehh. I would, however, like to point out that I was the originator of that joke (you can look it up), so don't say mean things or I will pout. · rodii · 23:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: in the light of the above. Respected and creative Wikipedian got it going. And, er, someone might want to write a PhD thesis on it in future. Stephen B Streater 20:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

  Changed to Merge to be more consistent with my other opinions. Stephen B Streater 20:15, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep or Merge First mascot for an internet group? How long does something have to exist before it becomes important? Banjokangaroo 00:52, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge, not notable by itself. -Sean Curtin 01:13, 26 May 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.