Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/YTMND

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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep --Allen3 talk 23:34, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

I think you mean Holy Motherfucking Keep --SPUI (talk) 00:38, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] YTMND

This website was deleted in a previous vote, on grounds of lack of notability. However, since that deletion, its popularity has skyrocketed and its Alexa rank, er, groundrocketed? Anyway, WP:VFU decided the situation had changed substantially. This VFD nomination is procedural after its undeletion.

  • Abstain. Radiant_>|< 23:48, August 13, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Most defineately a popular internet meme/fad Winckle 23:01, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep very popular website. has many fans that visit this article often. Karl Marx
  • Keep popular internet meme. --SPUI (talk) 00:16, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, very notable. Rhobite 00:43, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep per above. Jaxl | talk 01:01, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep and cleanup. The tone of the article is somewhat POV. The site may be notable—its forum goings-on are not. It'd like to see more facts and less presumption of significance. ("...fads in the subject matter of YTMND's are fairly rampant.", "Before the modern day ytmnd...") -Aranel ("Sarah") 02:14, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, useful article. --K1vsr (talk) 03:06, August 14, 2005 (UTC)

KEEP!!!

  • Keep and cleanup. Noteworthy internet meme, but the article is over-long and a bit trivia-heavy. Fernando Rizo T/C 08:25, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, obviously Pengo 09:05, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Leaning towards delete, although all the keep votes make me wonder, so I'll just call my vote a neutral...but this just seems like a minor internet fad, almost an in-joke. Weren't these the same guys doing all that Harry Potter trolling recently? This seems like another article in the mold of the lamentably still extant GNAA. We have a problem where we apply a far higher standard of notability for real-world stuff than we do for obscure bits of internet trivia that matter to a couple hundred people for a few months. Everyking 09:18, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
    • OK, I vote keep, albeit with some distaste. Everyking 09:27, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
    • Thanks for voting to Keep :). But, just a note sir, the most popular YTMND page picard.ytmnd.com/ has received over a million page views. This is hardly something that only a couple hundred people care about. Celerityfm 15:01, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I voted to Undelete, so it's not likely I'd vote Delete right after. Keep. --Shadow Hog 17:02, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep; it's an annoyingly obnoxious gimmick, and part of the reason it's annoyingly obnoxious is because it's cropped up on seemingly every message board and forum ever. So, yeah, notable. --Jacj 18:21, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep
  • Keep keep keep keep keep. ShadowMan1od 23:25, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep but needs a thorough cleanup to rid it of forumcruft. FCYTravis 00:35, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. This article is not VfD material. --Randy 01:25, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
    • For the record, this article wasn't actually nominated for deletion this time. It's a formality after undeletion. -Aranel ("Sarah") 13:09, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, just cut down on the forum info. Buzda 00:22, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Uberkeep MessedRocker 15:20, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Easty How can you delete it? It's like teh best meme EVAR.
  • Keep and cleanup Daemon8666 21:29, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, it's a great page for info on it User:the-reaper 19:49, August 15, 2005 (UTC)
  • KHAN! Keep

Lord Patrick 05:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep, as a major contributor to this article and small-time wikipedia contributor in general I'm shocked to see that it was deleted. I was responsible for jump starting it's existence and while the article has grown a bit out of control I think that it's an important article. While you may not see it on the surface, YTMND is really a major cultural phenomenon that extends way beyond the internet and the members of it's website. In and of itself it represents a new movement in ironic comedy and cultural attitudes. I seriously believe that it would be a disservice to the world to not include this article in the wikipedia body of information. Celerityfm 14:57, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, as per above. Discombobulator 17:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
  • KeepBrendantheJedi
  • KeepSysys 21:52, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • KeepGordonfan 21:52, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep This was deleted? Sheesh, internet culture gets no respect :-S --Dhartung | Talk 04:11, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Ariamaki The Wiki-Wise Contains a lot of good information about a popular site- I also vote that the deletion notice be removed now, as it has been nearly a week with no down-votes. 06:38, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep DJ John 08:31, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep I think articles like this should be kept. Storage space is starting to be an non-issue with the decrease of cost, and even if something is a fad, it will just enhance the future historical value of the Wikipedia - imagine how useful something like this could be in 100 years time to someone studying the beginnings of the Internet and it's shifting culture. Ppinheiro 18:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC).
  • Keep It's funny. Could be a tiny bit shorter, but certainly shouldn't be deleted. zachol 02:05, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Was a good article. Most likely some up-tight biased asshole of an admin is going to delete it anyways, as usual on wiki --Tykell 16:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, I found this informative --Gearspring 18:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep I was wondering about the origins of YTMND. This page was helpful. T-mccool 03:38, August 19, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep and cleanup See above. Very notable site, but the article itself needs some cleaning up. Zig 04:03, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep; honestly, this site is well-known and well-visited. Eszett 14:25, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
  • KEEP....CAPTAIN JEAUN-LUC PICARD OF THE U.S.S ENTERPRISE: It has current significant value on the internet as a result of it's noticable memes and is a good front for people who expertise in Photoshop alteration, one example being the marevlous works of art portrayed by the TIGER Handheld LCD game variants of the sites' most popular commodities.
  • Keep This is quite possibly the greatest interenet meme ever. And I state that not as a mere personal opinion. In other terms YTMND might very well be the most notorious of the internet memes and is indeed for starting (or at least spreading) other memes as well and responsible for 'their' notoriety. User:24.9.10.235
  • Keep... popular meme, no need for deletion. User: SDiablo
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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.