Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/YTMND (2nd nomination)
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 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 [1] 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 Johnston 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