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Leet appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on June 17, 2004.

Stephen Colbert

septermber 17th stephen colbert told people to vandalize this article.... I put it back to how it was

I cleaned it up

You may have noticed that Leet has undergone some pretty dramatic changes under some of the headings.

I did my best to make everything sound encyclopedic.
I boiled the over-stylized examples down to just their roots (e.g. for the pwn heading, pwn3d → pwned—The 3 only bogged down the example) so that nothing got in the way of their meaning.
I got rid of a bunch of game references (lots of WoW shit).
Removed a bunch of pointless topic expansions and extraneous examples
Removed some unfounded claims and requested citations for others.
Swapped some grammar and spelling sections around, because they were in the wrong section.
Many other changes.

Hopefully most of you approve of the changes. I will be keeping a close eye on this article, as it seems to attract a lot of bilge.

The only thing I didn't go over were the lists of links at the bottom of the article.

Is it clean? Can we get rid of the clean-up heading? —Ragdoll 14:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Since there have been no objections for 10 days, I'm going to be bold and remove the clean-up notice. Please, though, continue to remember that removing information may be just as valuable as adding information. —Ragdoll 19:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

cleanup / citing sources

isn't it kind of impossible to cite sources for comments like "some ppl spek lyk3 dis?" this kind of thing cannot be proved by officially recognized sources, and I'm under the impression that these kind of sentences don't really need to be proved; they should be already understood to be true.

"Some wrongly believe that the origin involved using a dynamic cipher, so that only experienced users would be privy to the message"

someone reply how these kind of sentences can be given a citation.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shadowxling (talk • contribs) 19:42, September 18, 2006.

Find the study that talks about peoples' misunderstandings about the origin of Leet and create a citation for it. Otherwise, it may be better to opt to get rid of the statement altogether. —Ragdoll 17:02, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Destroy the Leetists

Yes, thou shall vandalize this article because it is an example of how NOT to write an article, IM lingo is VERY far off from the phenomina we know as leet, images of people using 1337 are mainly doctored, and half of the article is written by throwing in random facts here and there...

Destroy the leet, before it destroys us all.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.247.243.168 (talk) 08:04, September 21, 2006'.

Better yet, help us make the article better. —Ragdoll 22:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

destroy the leetists? ur retarded —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.70.145.105 (talk • contribs) 09:16, September 22, 2006 (UTC)

Notable?

An anoymous user added a link to this site under the Similar and related dialects section. I'm in two minds as to whether or not it's notable enough for mention. Any comments? Crimson Shadow 16:35, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I deleted the linkspam, though I don't know what Zero is itself. If it's notable enough to be included, it won't be pointing to a freewebs page. —Ragdoll 16:48, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ask.com logo

I'm hesitent to delete the Ask.com logo, just because I don't know if it's part of a joke they played, like Google often does with their logo on certain holidays. It's really ugly and ametureish, and I debate its neccesity, after Google's page is seen translated into Leet.

Do we need another search engine translation as an image?

Plus, it has no copyright information attached. —Ragdoll 22:10, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image

My image is not unrelated. Take a look at the time the clocks are displaying. JIP | Talk 07:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm unclear as to how a coincidence is relevant to the variety. —Ragdoll 22:10, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Too much leet & 1337 refences?

There are pictures from Sociological considerations to The Leet cipher and syntax. Ain't that a bit too much, pictures even cover a part of table. 217.159.163.220 18:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. I chose to remove this one because personalized license plates can be anything. --Sbluen 18:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. —Ragdoll 18:07, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1337 The Numb3r

Is it of any significance that 1337 is divisible only by 7 and 19? 1337 is a fun number to run across irl.

FTW, Plz

I'm wondering if these belong in the Leet article, since none of them are actually Leet. These are both more like SMS language, or txt-tlk; they're not really enciphered. Plz might warrent a note in the main vocabulary section, but I don't think it needs a section all on its own.

What do you think? —Ragdoll 18:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

 i agree with the comment about Plz, but FTW is embedded in the leet culture so to speak and so i do believe it warrents a place.