Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What Chair

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The result of the debate was Delete, no consensus to merge anywhere. --Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 21:30, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What Chair

Unencyclopedic. WP:NOT a joke book. Unsourced. FCYTravis 00:46, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete As per nomination, Wikipedia is not a joke book. Contents might be added as a note into an article on humor or specific types of humor, but a punchline does not a encyclopedia entry make. --Wingsandsword 07:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete It's pretty funny, but Wikipedia is not a joke book, and it's not exactly an encyclopedic article. Cynicism addict 03:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wiktionary if it's actually a legitimate phrase as claimed (let them deal with the question :)). Otherwise, delete. —Simetrical (talk) 04:06, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I can confidently predict, without even asking at the Beer Parlour, that the advice of most Wiktionary editors will be to "clean up your own messes". Uncle G 08:30, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikibooks Jokebook if acceptable (although this may not be possible as it is undergoing VfD there) otherwise delete. This is a perfect example of an anti-joke. Movementarian 07:52, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
  • The Jokebook is in the process of being deleted, as per Jimbo 1. Uncle G 08:30, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
    • I mentioned that. Movementarian 08:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
      • Bah! This is what I get for doing multiple things at once. ☺ Uncle G 09:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete.--SarekOfVulcan 09:26, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Joke. The Joke article can list various famous jokes but they don't deserve their own articles. — JIP | Talk 09:46, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I think this story is more often described as an urban legend than as a joke -- see Snopes's mention of it here. Suggest merging with urban legend, perhaps in subsection on academic lore. Perodicticus 10:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to urban legend if they want it. It's an urban legend all right. I've got a book which lists this as one. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:11, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and BJAODN as it is actually a joke. I don't think this is a joke book, is it? Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 15:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Well, it's funny, so it's a verified joke, and we should keep everything verifiable. BJAODN, Wikipedia is not a jokebook. --Last Malthusian 15:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Ot transwiki to somewhere else. Same vote, really. -R. fiend 18:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Move to BJAODN -- p_b1999 ^{(Talk|Contribution)} 00:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Has little if any chance of expansion, referencing or illustrating.
• Delete, WP is not repository of jokes. Could be speedy IMHO. Pavel Vozenilek 04:53, 22 December 2005 (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.