Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zig (Judaism)
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- 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 was Speedy keep Nominator withdraws nomination given provided verification from Bartleby's. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:52, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Zig (Judaism)
Unverifiable; relevant Google hits only lead back to Wikipedia. Either very obscure or made-up. For what it's worth, "Zig" is also the name of the spaceship in the the popular meme All your base are belong to us. Either this is an obscure Talmud legend or a hoax. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Google for "zig rooster eclipse talmud" led me here, which seems to indicate that it was in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable as far back as the 1890s. Does that make it notable? Not sure, but it's definitely not a hoax. DS 02:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- Speedy keep That's good enough for me. However, I'm still trying to figure out how you found that....I tried that Google search again and didn't get the Bartleby hit. (I do get that hit if I remove "rooster" from the search, which never occurred to me). OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
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