Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Log/2010 June
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The result was: delete. This article may be remade in a few years if evidence can be produced at that time that quotes from the work are still being used. BD2412 T 17:54, 25 June 2010 (UTC)reply
After being nominated for PROD for lack of notability (and having the tag removed), it comes here, as the problem still exists. Cited in the PROD nomination was a link to a discussion of this subject on WP — UDScott 17:44, 8 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 18:00, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
- Delete. ~ UDScott 17:44, 8 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Do not delete. ~ MastaAwesome 11:47 8 June 2010 (PST)
- Delete per nom. BD2412 T 19:38, 8 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete. Although this title gets rather a lot of Google hits, I gave it a {{prod}} because I could not find evidence of notability in the Wikipedia sense. There are gazillions of so-called "internet memes" and, obviously, most will not withstand the the test of time, so memeness can't be used as a criterion for inclusion without evidence of non-trivial notice. ~ Ningauble 19:49, 9 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete per nom and Ningauble. -Sketchmoose 15:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Do not delete. ~ Tiffany331 07:51, 24 June 2010 (UTC)reply
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The result was: Kept for no consensus to delete.--Jusjih 21:30, 27 June 2010 (UTC).reply
Article was {{prod}} because "these quotes do not appear to be memorable in any way." This was contested on grounds of notability. Nevertheless, the selections do not come close to satisfying Wikiquote:Quotability. — Ningauble 14:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 15:00, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
- Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 14:23, 13 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Keep Ninguable, you state, “the selections do not come close to satisfying Wikiquote:Quotability.” Okay, let's go over them.
- 1. Is the quote itself particularly witty, pithy, wise, eloquent, or poignant?
- Extremely witty, as Miss Foozie usually uses these very unusual phrases as rapid quips or introductions, even to people she hardly knows.
- 2. Is the author of the quote notable? If so, are they very notable, moderately notable, barely notable? Are they notable as a source of quotes (i.e., as a poet, pundit, or Yogi Berra)?
- The author is very notable, as asserted by her article on Wikipedia.
- 3. Is the quote itself independently well known (as with proverbs and certain well-reported comments)?
- Nearly anyone the the Queer community in Chicago, and anyone in the Queer community anywhere from Gay Friendly establishments throughout Southeastern and Western Michigan, Sarnia and Windsor, Ontario, Northern Ohio, Indiana, Washington D.C. and New York immediately recognizes these quotes and knows the author.
- Megan Lovejoy (April 2007) . "Who Makes What — Profiles". Chicago 56 (4). ISSN 0362-4595.
Megan Lovejoy (April 2004). Who Makes What — Profiles — Chicago. Chicago. Tribune Company. Retrieved on 2007-06-06. - Shawn Troy Johnson (November 12-25, 2009) . "Cover". HOTT Magazine 2 (17). Retrieved on 2010-03-30.
Shawn Troy Johnson (November 2008). Old Issues. HOTT Magazine. Retrieved on 2010-03-30. - Miss Foozie (2009-10-29). MISS FOOZIE — Press & Media. MISS FOOZIE . Retrieved on 2010-03-30.
- Megan Lovejoy (April 2007) . "Who Makes What — Profiles". Chicago 56 (4). ISSN 0362-4595.
- Nearly anyone the the Queer community in Chicago, and anyone in the Queer community anywhere from Gay Friendly establishments throughout Southeastern and Western Michigan, Sarnia and Windsor, Ontario, Northern Ohio, Indiana, Washington D.C. and New York immediately recognizes these quotes and knows the author.
- 4. Is the subject of the quote a notable subject? Is it about a broad theme of the human experience such as Love, Justice, or Loneliness? Or is it about a narrow or mundane topic, like porcupines, lunch meat, or that new car smell? If the quote is about a mundane topic, does the author have particular expertise on that topic? If the quote is about another person, is that other person highly notable?
- Yes, the human experience of love, gender, and sexuality are the theme of Foozie’s quotes. Sexual proclivity is a very difficult and often physically and emotionally painful experience for many Gay men, as is the decision to relinquish secondary-sex characteristics and dress as the opposite gender. The fact that Foozie talks about such serious topics in such a witty, comical way is notable in and of itself.
- 5. Has the quote stood the test of time?
- Well, she’s been around since August 6, 1997, so I would say definitely.
- 6. Is the quote verifiably sourced?
- Yes and sources include books, magazines, films and official websites.
- 1. Is the quote itself particularly witty, pithy, wise, eloquent, or poignant?
- Comment: While the addition of additional quotes makes this a more meaningful discussion now (and may even tilt the vote in favor of keeping the page), the original two quotes (Hello pineapples and Hello hot dogs) could hardly be deemed pithy or witty. It was for this reason that the page was nominated. Adding the other quotes makes a better case, but I fail to see how those original quotes show "the human experience of love, gender, and sexuality." ~ UDScott 01:56, 14 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- “Hello, Pineapples!” and “Hello, Hotdog” are Miss Foozie’s rather unusual pet-names she gives to people she hardly knows. In Gay communities such as San Fransisco, the AIDS devastation accelerated the generation gap between older and younger men, peaking in the early 1990’s, with few connections that survived between the two. Some older survivors claim that the current culture has become "shallow and catty," which is also their common criticism of mainstream gay culture. The allegation is that the younger community no longer reflects the culture's original function as a social alternative for primarily rural and blue-collar, traditionally masculine gay men. Moreover, the proliferation of pageants and their title winners runs contrary to the early community's identification with and admiration for raw, unself-conscious masculinity. In her own words:
| “ | I love people, it doesn’t matter their color, nationality, sexual orientation, whatever. We all live here on the same planet. I also don’t like this good looking/bad looking thing. Who cares? Just because you don’t have looks doesn’t mean you aren’t pretty inside. | ” |
- The fact that she gives loving pet names like “Pineapple” and “Hotdog” to anyone she meets makes people feel special and is truly different than the split the Gay community has seen since the early 1990’s. Taric25 07:04, 14 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Keep This quote is typical of Miss Foozie and she is a notable person, in addition, it meets inclusion guidelines. QwerpQwertus 18:29, 13 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Keep, based on the recent additions to the page. However, as I noted above, I do not feel that the first two quotes on the page should really stay - they are neither pithy nor memorable. The fact that a long argument has to be made to explain them makes the case that they are probably not worthy of remaining on the page. ~ UDScott 14:06, 14 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Thank you for your vote. If you feel that the argument is too long to explain the first two quotes, then I will simply answer that those two quotes have appeared in numerous films, books, and magazines and are widely recognized Foozieisms. Taric25 16:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Bear in mind that Wikiquote's the purpose is to collect great quotes, not to present a portrait of the person, even as an extension of a Wikipedia article. The poignancy of very brief "characteristic catchphrases" is so wholly dependent on context that they should not be considered quoteworthy unless that of which they are characteristic is so famous that they are universally recognized, or very nearly so. ~ Ningauble 18:13, 19 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Thank you for your vote. If you feel that the argument is too long to explain the first two quotes, then I will simply answer that those two quotes have appeared in numerous films, books, and magazines and are widely recognized Foozieisms. Taric25 16:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Keep. Sufficiently notable. A two-word quote is cutting it pretty close, even a very short quote can become iconically associated with a speaker (compare fictional character Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington from Welcome Back, Kotter, with his trademark smooth-voiced "Hi there", and the iconic advertising campaign, "Got milk"). BD2412 T 16:02, 16 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Comment: Notability of this person and these quotes appears to be very slight. This really appears to be just a locally recognized clown. (No offence intended, clowning is a noble profession.) Biographical and philosophical reflections quoted in the article are cited to local periodicals, and to a book having no presence on Google other than Wikipedia, Wikiquote, and posts by its own author. I remain unconvinced that this person is suitable for a Wikiquote article at this time, though the character may become more widely recognized in the future. ~ Ningauble 18:13, 19 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- I second the motion that clowning is a notable profession. Anyone for third? Taric25 03:18, 21 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- He said "noble", not "notable". Whether clowing is a "notable" profession is, in any case, irrelevant to the question of whether a particular clown is notable. BD2412 T 18:03, 25 June 2010 (UTC)reply
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The result was: Deleted.--Jusjih 02:33, 4 July 2010 (UTC).reply
This article was {{prod}} because "Quotes attributed to a living person without sources." A citation has been added, but it is bogus: the quote is not in the cited article. One of the other quotes actually is to be found in the linked article, but I see no indication that any of this puffery and self-promotion is quoteworthy. — Ningauble 15:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 16:00, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
- Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 15:11, 16 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 15:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete per nom. -Sketchmoose 15:39, 16 June 2010 (UTC)reply
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The result was: Deleted.--Jusjih 01:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC).reply
At best, this category is redundant with Films by studio. At worst, like Literary works by publisher, it has nothing to do with the quotes. This sort of classification is appropriate at Wikipedia, and we should cross-link with the Wikipedia articles, but it serves no useful purpose here. — Ningauble 18:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 19:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
- Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 18:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 18:39, 19 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete per nom. Our categorization scheme should be humble in its ambition, directed towards guiding readers to quotes based on their topic and authorship (including characteristics of the author), but not something tertiary like this. BD2412 T 17:52, 25 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete per nom. Sensible. -Sketchmoose 18:15, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- The result of this discussion is clearly deletion of the category. Are we deleting the subcategories also, or just recategorizing them under Category:Films by studio? BD2412 T 22:30, 10 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- Perhaps it is time to move the question of deleting Category:Films by studio that was raised a couple times last year. I would provisionally support merging them as a way to consolidate for a vote on whether to keep the resulting aggregate. ~ Ningauble 17:40, 11 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- In retrospect, that won't work. The producers are not studios (companies which distribute the films) but merely financial backers. BD2412 T 19:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- I am not sure about conflating distribution with the making of films, a parlance that seems to me just a hangover from the vertical integration characteristic of the golden age of the studio system. Distribution really has nothing to do with creating a film, except insofar an nobody will finance it until a distribution channel has been lined up. I see no value in mechanically categorizing films by imprint. Distributors place their imprint on works they handle just as book publishers do, but we don't categorize Hamlet in Category:Simon & Schuster books, Category:Cambridge University Press books, &c., or even Category:Books distributed by Amazon Kindle. ~ Ningauble 17:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- I don't mean to suggest that the studio categories should be kept, just that the producer categories shouldn't be recategorized under them. BD2412 T 20:49, 16 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- I am not sure about conflating distribution with the making of films, a parlance that seems to me just a hangover from the vertical integration characteristic of the golden age of the studio system. Distribution really has nothing to do with creating a film, except insofar an nobody will finance it until a distribution channel has been lined up. I see no value in mechanically categorizing films by imprint. Distributors place their imprint on works they handle just as book publishers do, but we don't categorize Hamlet in Category:Simon & Schuster books, Category:Cambridge University Press books, &c., or even Category:Books distributed by Amazon Kindle. ~ Ningauble 17:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- In retrospect, that won't work. The producers are not studios (companies which distribute the films) but merely financial backers. BD2412 T 19:59, 15 July 2010 (UTC)reply
- Perhaps it is time to move the question of deleting Category:Films by studio that was raised a couple times last year. I would provisionally support merging them as a way to consolidate for a vote on whether to keep the resulting aggregate. ~ Ningauble 17:40, 11 July 2010 (UTC)reply
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The result was: Deleted here and exported to wikt:Transwiki:Conversational Kannada.--Jusjih 21:45, 1 August 2010 (UTC).reply
Nothing here seems particularly memorable or pithy, and nothing is sourced. — UDScott 01:26, 24 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 02:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- Delete. ~ UDScott 01:26, 24 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete. Wikiquote is for famous quotes, not ordinary entries from a phrasebook, cited or not. ~ Ningauble 16:14, 24 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Transwiki to Wiktionary to see if they can use any of this in their phrasebook projects, delete from Wikiquote. BD2412 T 17:51, 25 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Transwiki/delete per BD2412. -Sketchmoose 18:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- I posted a note about this on Wiktionary, and found no objection to transwikiing it over there. Now if only someone could figure out how this transwiki process actually works! BD2412 T 20:03, 15 July 2010 (UTC)reply
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The result was: move to Mad (magazine). BD2412 T 20:13, 15 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Page of quotes attributed to a fictional character; the one sourced quote could go in advertising slogans, since it is basically the tagline for the magazine. The rest are of questionable originality, and can go entirely. — BD2412 T 17:48, 25 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 18:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
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- Keep, but stubify by removing unsourced, unremarkable quotes, and move to Mad (magazine) per Wikiquote:Fictional characters. Unless it is discussed as an advertising slogan by authoritative independant sources, I don't think a famous catchphrase—even one used on the magazine's cover a half-dozen times—should be considered an advertising slogan for our purposes, lest we open up advertising slogans to all sorts of cover copy. ~ Ningauble 15:26, 29 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- True. That is an agreeable solution. BD2412 T 23:49, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
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The result was: delete. BD2412 T 20:14, 15 July 2010 (UTC)reply
This fansite podcast does not appear to be notable in the Wikipedia sense. While a discussion of its notability at Wikipedia attests to a degree of popularity, the cited award from a marketing consultancy, operated by an advertising agency, has little credibility as a "well-known and independent award." — Ningauble 14:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Vote closes: 15:00, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
- Delete as nom. ~ Ningauble 14:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete, per nom. ~ UDScott 17:09, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete per nom. BD2412 T 18:03, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete per nom. -Sketchmoose 18:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)reply
- Delete - Per above. Additionally, this could have been closed a few days ago. Tiptoety talk 06:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)reply
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