Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dancing Banana (2nd nomination)

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 PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TI - er - I mean keep. Potential to redirect/merge this elsewhere may be further discussed on the talk page. Shereth 22:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dancing Banana

Dancing Banana (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Nothing but an unsourced list of apperances for this popular but unlikely-to-be-sourced meme. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 20:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• Delete - unsourced, non-encyclopedia content—G716 <^T·_C> 21:00, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - Unsourced Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 21:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Keep per arguments below, since my vote here I've kinda noticed more and more how oft-mentioned the Peanut Butter Jelly Time meme is, and it seems to be worth an article. This article really needs some reliable sources though. ~ mazca ^talk 17:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, there are sources available which should be incorporated into the article (including this new one). --Dhartung | Talk 23:20, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• None of those is really substantial; one's a forum post, one was apparently from a college newspaper. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 23:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
• It's also in this book though there's no preview available. Certainly at minimum enough for merger with List of internet memes (it honestly isn't that important or discussable other than listing appearances). --Dhartung | Talk 23:24, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

• Keep on the basis that the article is primarily about (and in fact receives a redirect regarding) the Peanut Butter Jelly Time Internet meme which is notable and iconic enough to have been referenced on major television programs such as Family Guy. 23skidoo (talk) 23:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. This is the most important page on Wikipedia ever. inb4 -this user has 3 edits, yeah nobody cares how many edits i have you couple of weird online bureaucrats. you guys take yourself to seriously. no child should go without knowing the reason Peter Griffin dressed up like a giant banana and started dancing or something like that. See, I have no idea what he did, because when I was young I didn't get the chance to learn the truth about the connection between family guy and the dancing banana gif. I hope this convinces you to keep the article.Joehoe665 (talk) 00:39, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• Comment This guy appears in that new Weezer video! He at least deserves a mention here. Zagalejo^^^ 02:35, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to List of Internet phenomena. --John (talk) 18:54, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:02, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
• Redirect to List of Internet phenomena. --PlasmaTwa2 03:07, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, per Dhartung and the fact that Wikipedia's article has been cited by major news papers, see for example [1]. Woseph (talk) 20:09, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
• Keep This page is linked to by other pages and is an important enough internet meme to stand out on its own, owing to its chained replication through multiple sources, for instance: the Dancing Banana lead to the Dancing Banana in Family Guy, and the Dancing Banana in the Warcraft Dance, eventually leading to Sophat Peou imitating the song nationally on American Idol. This meme has obviously had a noteworthy and insidious influence on culture and is not a phenomenon relegated strictly to the internet. This particular meme's methods of propagation, and level of influence could form important pieces of evidence in a paper or discussion on the overall subject of memetics. It is as encyclopedic as many other major icons and I see the attempted deletion of this article as a sign of recent overzealous attempts to redact pertinent information on Wikipedia due to personal biases on what should be included in Wikipedia. Not to make a Straw Man argument, and I apologize if I'm wrong, but it is my suspicion that an underlying cause for nominating this article for deletion is an elitist distaste for pop-culture without the consideration that almost all culture was once 'pop-culture.' Outright deleting articles like this undermines Wikipedia's credibility as a collaborative project; eliminating articles of interest to the readers of a reader-edited encyclopedia makes those readers afraid to edit. Alright, I'll get off my stump now.(Elustran (talk) 21:13, 3 June 2008 (UTC))
• Save the Banana! Notable as a pop culture cult favourite, as detailed in the article. Ecoleetage (talk) 01:25, 5 June 2008 (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.