Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Opposite day

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP. — JIP | Talk 12:36, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Opposite day

Almost all of the article, including the term's supposed origin in Calvin and Hobbes, is unverifiable. Anville 12:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Not unverifiable, but unverified. An OR essay is not research, and is the only link. Not encyclopedic. Having been here since August and not having improved much makes the eventualist it theory unlikely to come true here. (Incidentally, I played this when I was a kid). --Blackcap | talk 12:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. If you played this as a kid it seems likely to be notable enough to have an article. Lots of Google hits. Verifiable information on the term's origin. Give it some more time. - Haukurth 14:09, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a very common feature of schoolyard culture. Having gone to elementary school before Calvin & Hobbes, I'm pretty sure the origin predates Watterson. Whitejay²⁵¹ 14:18, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep. I remember as a kid when friends would do things that they were not supposed to, and when confronted, would raise Opposite Day as a defense and demand a reward. -- BD2412 ^talk 14:28, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep. notable cultural phenomenon. If the article needs research and citations, then so be it. — brighterorange (talk) 15:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep interesting cultural aspect. Though I, too, doubt that it really originated with Calvin and Hobbes. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Needs to be further researched and well substantiated though. The fact (?!) that this predates Waterman shd atleast go into its talk page if not the main page. --Gurubrahma 17:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep interesting phenom. Dottore So 18:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep unless it is opposite day today, then I would have to say delete. It is a part of children's culture, just like the snipe hunt Dominick 18:59, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge with List of school pranks. ♥purplefeltangel ^(talk) ♥ ^(contribs) 19:08, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• keep please opposite day has been around for a long time anyway
  • (unsigned vote by User:Yuckfoo but we already knew that because he always says "please." Would that all editors were so polite. —Wahoofive (talk) 22:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment see Children's games. Almost all of these suffer from a similar verifiability problem, but I wouldn't advocate deleting them all. —Wahoofive (talk) 22:39, 1 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.