Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Finkelstein's Law

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Finkelstein's Law was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

Original reserach, but mostly patent nonsense. User Nfa has a dupe of this article as his User page. After he created this page, I put it up for speedy. Then two sock puppets joined in, Krudgdm and 69.165.95.35. I'm not totally sure, but the article seems like it should be moved to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. --Viriditas | Talk 02:28, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

  • Delete self-made law. Neologism, nonsense, original research, self-promotion, whathaveyou. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:43, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Boy, we could have a nice discussion whether your forum deserves a place on Wikipedia (for the time being I say no, but I am willing to change my mind on that), but an article on one aspect of it? Where's that delete button? O shit, I'm not a sysop any more... - Andre Engels 03:03, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Speedy, prank. Wyss 03:19, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete --fvw* 03:36, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)
  • Of all the ways to present a complaint against geocaching.com, this must be the most entertaining. But this isn't, of course, the right place. Delete. Samaritan 03:59, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • I'm not a sock puppet, but I agree that the article needs to be deleted. Someone in the Geocaching forums referenced Godwin's law in a flaming hot thread, then NFA apparently thought it would be funny to create this article. I agree that it's funny, in context, but not appropriate for Wikipedia. krugdm 04:21, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. He says, "If posted in an off-topic forum, the original post on Finkelstein's Law will be ignored by TPTB." Wrong, it's not being ignored. It's being VfD'ed. P Ingerson 07:55, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • del. Mikkalai 08:45, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete this patent {{nonsense}}. --MarkSweep 09:38, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Author just blanked the page, and I've restored it. I'm assuming this is the author's way of saying "speedy delete". I've invited the author to this page. --Viriditas | Talk 10:40, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, obvious joke, original research, untrue, neologism, not encyclopedic and no potential to become encyclopedic. (Not patent nonsense IMHO because it makes perfect sense). [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 16:09, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Original research. utcursch 13:26, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.