Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ALT-F4 Scam

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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 nomination was redirect to Cheating in online games. – Avi 14:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ALT-F4 Scam

Seems unencyclopedic to me Kungfu Adam (talk) 12:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete - umm ... WP:NOR and WP:NFT. I can't imagine that there are overly many verifiable sources that call it a "scam". It is a joke ... not a scam. BigDT 12:51, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as this constitutes original research and is not verified. As BigDT stated this is more of a joke or prank than a "scam". If this gets sourced (and for the record I couldn't find anything I would consider to be a reliable source for this) it should be merged to Computer prank.--Isotope23 13:06, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Cheating in online games. See the secton on Cheating in MMORPGs, the ALT-F4 Scam is already covered. --blue520 14:53, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect per Blue250. BJK 14:57, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect. What OR - haven't you read my scholarly dissertation on MMORPG scams, which was published in Nature? :) - CrazyRussian talk/email 15:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
    • I'm quite surprised that no-one has actually written about this particular style of prank (which, in the "press Alt-H to log on" form, has been around for quite a while, now). But whilst I could find people chuckling at the joke, I couldn't find any reliable sources discussing the style of prank itself. Uncle G 17:02, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect as OR, per blue520. Ziggurat 23:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment but then shouldn't it be removed from Cheating in online games as unverified original research... thus making it redirect to an article devoid of information on the topic?--Isotope23 12:39, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, too trivial to be documented in an encyclopedia. Stifle (talk) 18:31, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
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.