--- Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com wrote:
Even if you subtract the newbies, it's fairly obvious that there is no consensus to delete.
No consensus? What's consensus?
I think the page should be kept for now, but this is a special case of WP:MEME where the meme is still very young and it's hard to determine how ephemeral it will be.
Special cases are subject to editorial axeing by the Editorial Qabal.
There's nothing wrong with doing another AfD two or three months from now.
Patience is only a virtue, nothing more.
In the case of [[Brian Peppers]], Jimmy tried an article creation moratorium as an alternative approach. Peppers, however, is another special case where human dignity is concerned.
Dignity is not on everyones mind. Again, its just one of those "virtues."
You mentioned the Brian Peppers article, which an editor apparently dispatched with appropriately. I think the Qabal should follow this example of NPOV pushing.
I see no harm in keeping a verifiable, limited page about [[Eon8]] for the time being. I am very wary of viral marketing crap, but this seems to be a harmless experiment without a clear commercial motive.
"Verifiability" would appear to be limited to 1) its a site, and 2) that "Mike" runs it. The Wikinews article called it "mysterious," and quoted its stated "purpose" as "to determine the reactions of the internet public to lack of information." This pissed me off enough to write to the Wikien Qabal. Its a joke site, with a claimed "purpose", who's real purpose appears to have been to gain legitimacy by memeing WP.
Applying our existing policies seems more important to me than keeping the encyclopedia free of "trivial" content. With 1.2 million articles, including a page dedicated to anthropomorphized operating systems ([[List of OS-tans]]) and an entire category of lists of fictional animals, that strikes me as a rather quixotic enterprise.
Quixotic? I'm nothing but Quixotic.
-S
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