Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ryoma (disease)

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Ryoma (disease) 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

[edit] Ryoma_(disease)

  • Delete. It's amusing and all that sort of thing, but that's not really what wikipedia is all about. I also second an addition to BJAODN, but. As much as I love Dinosaur Comics, I think outright deletion is necessary without adding it to the Dino Comics article. Rockingharder 19:46, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Not an actual disease; article is based on a joke from a webcomic. Merope 19:29, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. It says in the article it's not an actual disease, and gives the origins of the idea. There's many things on Wikipedia that aren't real but still profoundly affect people's lives. Qwantz 20:08, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete,, nonsense or fancruft, but perhaps worthy of preservation at BJAODN. -- Smerdis of Tlön 20:27, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep! Ryoma may not be a "real" disease, but it still has a profound impact on the lives of millions of americans and other living things. Also it's basically impossible to take the opinion seriously of anyone who uses the word "fancruft" in conversation. I mean seriously. "Ihcoyc"? "Tlön"?!. How would you like it if I deleted YOU for not being a real word? Also I'd like to point out that I don't understand the voting system at all, but I feel compelled to make myself heard on issues I really haven't thought through very well. keinsignal 20:27, 38 Cun 1786 (UTC)
    • Note that there is no User:KSE nor User:keinsignal; the above posting is by anonymous User:209.98.48.222, whose only other edit is a solitary addition to Ryoma (disease). --jpgordon{gab} 21:25, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Note that Quantz is likely the creator of the webcomic in question, which is located at www.quantz.com. In any case, redirect to Daily Dinosaur Comics and merge any meaningful content to there. Snowspinner 20:57, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
    • Delete. Prank/hoax. Having talked with Ryan North (author of Dinosaur Comics) before, it seems unlikely to me that User:Qwantz is him. Trolling Wikipedia isn't his style. — Gwalla | Talk 01:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
      • What's more, he said on his messageboard that he didn't write this article, and someone else there took credit for it. Factitious 02:20, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: DCEdwards1966 21:17, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect or delete. -Sean Curtin 21:39, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: Unencyclopedic. It is satirical fiction, written so as to make a point, apparently, about the proliferation of medical alarms -- but Wikipedia is a place for factual information, not for satirical fiction. Contrary to claims by Qwantz, it is not forthcoming about its fictional nature, and while Qwantz states a true principle that there are things which are not real which have still profoundly affected people's lives, there is no indication that Dinosaur Comics has all that profoundly affected people's lives, let alone a fictional disease contained therein. -- Antaeus Feldspar 22:29, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. To ensure I am taken "seriously" by the author, I will refrain from using the word "fancruft" and use my newly coined term Fiction and Entertainment Compiled with Extreme Specificty. Affected millions, my ass. -R. fiend 22:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • As a fictional disease, it has wreaked havoc on uncounted fictional lives, their imaginary friends and families, and those who are forced to share speculative elevators with them. In fact, millions is probably an understatement -- I believe it would be safer to say kajillions. Also, I have no personal affiliation with Qwantz or Daily Dinosaur Comics, and my additions to the entry for "Ryoma" were on the level of minor corrections. I simply have a vested interest in fictional diseases as I am myself a fictional character. I am also bored and enjoy causing trouble for people. I am sorry that you had to read all this. keinsignal 22:22, Dec 2 2084 (UTC)
  • Qwantz, I like Daily Dinosaur Comics, but I'm still voting Delete. Crazy Utahraptor. Silly Dan 23:12, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)
  • Delete: Prank. I hate whatever comic this came from. There. Now my vote can be seen as a conspiracy to keep it down. I have no idea what it came from, of course, but, since its author will assume that it's all personal, I might as well make the world simpler to understand. Pranks do not belong in encyclopedias, and the article could be speedy deleted as such. Geogre 01:53, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • The comic in question is Dinosaur Comics. It's very funny, in my opinion. Hating it because of something someone else wrote on Wikipedia doesn't seem entirely reasonable. The ryoma article was not created by the author of that comic strip. Factitious 02:20, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
    • Comment: I really don't, you know. My comment was aimed at the incivil votes we've been getting lately on rap, webcomic, and Internet issues. Some 2-3 people (won't say who) have come along to accuse all who vote to delete as "not knowing" the thing or "hating it," etc. Figured I'd save some time. I'm sure it's amusing, but I don't think we should break out jokes from much of anything, including No soup for you and the like. These are all best discussed in the articles on their originating topics. Geogre 04:27, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Dinosaur Comics. It should probably be on BJAODN as well. Factitious 02:20, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep: but make it more clear that it is a fictisious disease.
    • Sign your votes, people! --Improv 03:35, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Apologies from the Originator: No, I do not see it as personal and I do not see it as a conspiracy to "keep it down". I saw it as, as mentioned before by someone else, just a satire that I thought would be amusing. However, choosing Wikipedia was very poor reasoning on my part and I do apologize for it. I understand the true purpose of this wiki, and fully respect it, even if it did not appear so through my actions. So, I must apologize for my misdirection. Instead of outright deletion though, I suggest either redirection to Dinosaur Comics, a move to a more appropriate wiki (Suggestions would be helpful, as I do not have the capabilities to host my own wiki at this time), or, if at all possible, perhaps on the Qwantz site itself. I apologize for all this, and will assure you that an fictional mess in a quite-real encyclopedia will not occur from me again. Crowbar 9:37 PM, Dec. 2, 2004 (EST).
  • Delete it. —[[User:Radman1|RaD Man (talk)]] 03:33, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete the fancruft. --Improv 03:35, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. This is an entry about a specific detail of a fictional topic. Removing this is no different than removing an article about "TIE Fighters" in Star Wars, or "Q" from Star Trek. Except that this is a bit more obscure, and infinitely funnier. Only the hosters of Wikipedia should get the choice to even suggest removing this, and only if it's causing a burden on the server's hard drive(s). Is not the point of wikipedia to eventually contain the entirety of human knowledge (as awesome and impossible as that might be)? Note -- This is one of User:24.159.46.189's two edits.
    • No. It's not. -R. fiend 23:09, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, no redirect. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:09, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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