Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White elephant gift exchange

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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 was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 03:21, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] White elephant gift exchange

White elephant gift exchange (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Wikipedia is not a guide (WP:NOT). The article asserts a trivial notability for this game, and that's it. Most of the text consists merely of instructions how to play, without explaining why this game is significant in either a scholarly or cultural context. The overall style is childish, not encyclopedic. YechielMan 03:50, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. Moogy (talk) 03:55, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Took me less than a minute to find three newspaper articles of various quality that talk about white elephant gifts: [1] [2] [3]. I assume this is a good sign that this subject can be thoroughly sourced with reliable sources. --- RockMFR 04:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Note, your third link does not discuss a "gift exchange", it's only about "unique gifts" that may be considered white elephants. --Dhartung | Talk 05:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep but this should not be a how-to ruleset (who promulgates them anyway?). There seem to be plenty of results for white.elephant+exchange, even seven Google Books results. --Dhartung | Talk 05:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Not the greatest article, but the topic is of encyclopedic merit.--Gpohara 07:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, a venerable meme, encyclopedic. Tarinth 13:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, the gift of being Wikipedia, not Brittanica, cultural trivia is eulogized. KP Botany 21:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep a topic that should be explained as it is here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs) 23:08, 2 January 2007 (UTC).
  • Delete -- Article violates Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, because it is an instruction manual. Wikipedia: What Wikipedia is not says the following about instruction manuals: "Instruction manuals. While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instructions or advice (legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes. Note that this does not apply to the Wikipedia: namespace, where "how-to"s relevant to editing Wikipedia itself are appropriate, such as Wikipedia:How to draw a diagram with Dia. If you're interested in a how-to style manual, you may want to look at Wikihow or our sister project Wikibooks."Librarylefty 04:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Clean up and maybe transwiki to WikiHow. While it's true that Wikipedia is not a how-to guide, it appears to be a notable "activity". Just remove the instructions and you have a good stub article to start writing about. Axem Titanium 06:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep well-known, notable, etc. The article itself certainly needs some work, but the topic fits Wikipedia.--Velvet elvis81 06:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I recently endured 3 of these horrible exchanges with 3 different parts of my family in 3 different states, so I would have to say that yes, it is a notable holiday institution. Static Universe 08:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Very widespread practice. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 08:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment It really does need serious cleaning up, though. It's a white elephant of an article for Wikipedia. KP Botany 21:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Trans to wikihow This seems like a good article for there, but not for Wikipedia. --Адам12901 Talk 21:38, 6 January 2007 (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.