Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The friend society

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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 debate was DELETE. Mo0[talk] 04:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The friend society

Delete - Article does not make a case for the web site being notable. Google found 900 websites that note it and 90 that link to it. -- Rediahs 02:44, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Don't delete. Valid article to an actual webpage, and the owner is the creator of the Bananaphone animation, which does qualify the page as notable. Worloq 02:47, 14 January 2006 (UTC) (original user did not sign message)

  • 900,000 alexa and an obvious WP:VANITY page to boot (does not meet WP:WEB for the pedantic)- Delete WhiteNight T | @ | C 02:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as NN webforum Segv11 (talk/contribs) 03:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Owner did not create the original Bananaphone animation, W. T. Snacks (of 4chan) did. That hardly makes it notable anyway. This is just an Internet forum. Ashibaka tock 03:35, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
That would be the orrigional bananaphone FLASH animation, appologies for forgetting a key word.Worloq 03:39, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Yup, that's the one I'm taking about. See Bananaphone for details. Ashibaka tock 03:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Comment That would be as opposed to... what other kind of animation? Java? -- Rediahs 03:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I was responding to the person who reference the very old, very boring 4chan animation of Bananaphone, which was, if I remember correctly, a .gif file, and not phone-like in any way.Worloq 03:53, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Ah.. I misunderstood -- Rediahs 03:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
It's a Flash movie, and it is too a phone. A banana phone, to be exact. Ashibaka tock 04:00, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
This is all so fussy and messy. The important thing is that the website is not notable, not the flash movie which it hosts. -- Rediahs 04:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Are you kidding? This sort of discussion is what makes AFD great. Ashibaka tock 04:03, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Well, whatever you like. :) -- Rediahs 04:05, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete: Non-notable, unencyclopedic, un-sourced webcruft of the caliber that hits AfD daily. Potentially worth including in an existing article about something notable it's associated with, whatever that may be.
Adrian Lamo · (talk) · (mail) · 03:49, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Alright, let me try another route here. Regarding non-notability, it is, if I remember Wiki’s policy, NOT policy to delete something purely for being non-notable, but instead to mark it as a stub for future expansion. The section regarding webpage notability states that a webpage need only meet one of a list of criteria to be considered notable. In that list is the following: “The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.”
As stated in another location, the Bananphone flash animation created by Dave Teatro, original hosted on TFS, was later posted at Ebaum’s World, a page which is well known (434 on Alexa’s listing http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=www.ebaumsworld.com), and which, by Wiki standards, must be notable, else the entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebaum) on eBaum would’ve been removed by now. Therefore, on the grounds that TFS is the source of orrigional and notable content, I request that the article not be marked for deletion, but instead as a stub, whereupon, I don’t doubt, forum members from TFS will expand on it.
This will also be my last attempt at defending, so please, give it some honest consideration--and reconsideration if you've already voted--on the merits I've presented.Worloq 04:15, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, but ebaum reposts just about anything flash. I don't think ebaumsworld means a whole lot for notability.
And I believe you are mistaken concerning "stubbing" a non-notable article. An article is marked as a stub when it is lacking information and could greatly benefit from some extra information. Not when the subject is not notable. -- Rediahs 04:17, 14 January 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.