Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thirsty Thursday

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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 of the debate was delete. Johnleemk | Talk 18:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thirsty Thursday

per User:Uncle G/Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 10:29, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Google returns nothing relevant about it. --Peter McGinley 10:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per above dr.alf 11:21, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Not a vote I could see this being informative for an international student... --Dschor 12:10, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete ... also Wacky Wednesday, Too-hard Tuesday and My It's Monday, just in case anybody creates those. - DavidWBrooks 17:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. This isn't a new phenomenon, it is just no on else feels the need to name it. Movementarian 20:35, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - this, Friday after class, and other university drinking phenomena could go into a culture of alcohol or American university culture article. This is surely an encyclopedic pop culture topic, no? Smmurphy^(Talk) 21:55, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This topic, though not under this name, is already covered in Binge drinking. Movementarian 23:40, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: "Thirsty Thursday" gets 57,900 google hits [1], and isn't a recent term as the article claims. Not that this means it should get its own article though . . . peachlette 22:29, 10 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Peachlette. Because of T T going together, this actually has a wide variety of independent origins, and is used to mean several different things. It is similar to Formal Friday, a term coined on Triple J radio a year ago that is now in common use. Thursday can be a good day to go out and drink since Friday is just one day, and on Thursday nobody else is doing it. Much better than going out to drink on Wednesday or Tuesday or something. lol. It has merit. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 00:08, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I just came up with some random phrases like "wicked wednesday" and "funky friday" and got a shedload of Google hits. Unlike Casual Friday, this isn't an established custom, but more likely just a popular name for a bar's drinks promotion. - Hahnchen 01:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Thirsty Thursday is a legitimate college phenomenon with several years, at the very least, of history behind it. Just because no one's decided to write a peer-reviewed study on it for a sociological journal doesn't mean it can't be in Wikipedia. Bombsaway 03:14, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. It is not a college phenomenon, it is a slang term for binge drinking regardless of the night that it takes place on. We call it "Hey, you want to go down to the pub?", but then again I have never really felt the need to invent reasons to drink. There are already many available. In fact, Happy Burkinabé Republic Day! Cheers! Movementarian 04:05, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment* Regardless of your feelings on the matter, the fact remains that "Thirsty Thursday", as it were, is a phenomenon worth noting in Wikipedia. Binge drinking goes by many names, and Thirsty Thursday is one I happen to hear very often.

That would be a good reason to redirect to binge drinking. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 10:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per User:Uncle G/Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day (read that page, it is very true) Stifle 14:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This isn't something I "made up in school one day"; it's a pharse I've been hearing with alarming regularity since I matriculated in 2002, which I feel bears explanation. Bombsaway 05:43, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.