Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baka Subculture

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 was Delete. El_C 13:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baka Subculture

Baka Subculture (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Author-removed prod, with a reason featuring the phrase all it needs is a name and recognition, which to me implies that it has neither and thus shouldn't be included here. In its current form, it's only a dicdef and a Google doesn't give me anything to go on regarding the existence of the subculture. The word "Baka" itself seems to be a commonly-used one in anime circles, but I can't find anything saying that it's a term used to describe the subculture here. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 06:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete 'Baka' is not used in this way in Japanese. This sounds a lot like otaku, and that's probably both descriptive of the article's author and the meaning of the content in the article. --Wooty  Woot? | contribs 06:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as dicdef for an obviously non-notable neologism. No Google hits for "baka subculture". NeoChaosX (he shoots, he scores!) 07:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Possibly a veiled attack article, as "baka" is Japanese for "fool" or "idiot." Shimeru 07:46, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete total rot, either as described above a veiled attack or made up by someone with no knowledge of the Japanese language who doesn't know the meaning of the word. Ben W Bell talk 08:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, speedy if possible as per above. MER-C 08:45, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Obviously written by somebody not of the "subculture" that they are writing about. (Because if they were, they would have referred to it as otaku) --RoninBK_ETC 09:13, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This describes the anime movement exactly. WP is not a place for you to create your own terms. Spinach Dip 09:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Seeing as how "Baka" means idiot in Japanese, me thinks someone still has hard feelings over the ol' Pearl Harbour misunderstanding... ;) As per nom... Spawn Man 09:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- Duiqp 15:47, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete dumb. Danny Lilithborne 21:58, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete as all aboveMightyAtom 01:50, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete Um... we wouldn't really keep an article that amounted to "'Being a stupid helpless consumer' is a youth subculture that mostly consists of listening to Latest Boy Band's 'Music', often incorporating elements from Chatting In MySpace culture" either. This is a borderline attack page that does absolutely nothing to justify its existence... like proving that these nebulous people even exist. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 18:14, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Before you make judgements on what Wikipedia would and would not keep, I'd check out pages like Sheeple, and it's no consensus AfD --RoninBK_ETC 07:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment the key difference between that term and this is that that term is at least verifiably used once in a while (there are citations to that effect). There's no proof that this one is, and in fact there seems to be proof that it isn't. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 08:07, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete- Obviously non-notable. Nileena joseph ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 03:53, 16 November 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.