Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women in Refrigerators

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 keep. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 08:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Women in Refrigerators

Delete: non-notable website Lukas 08:25, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm new, and I made a long defense of the site. If editing this entry is a violation of wiki guidelines, I apologize--I'm not sure where to post this. FYI: The term 'Women in Refrigerators Comic Books' generates over 1 million hits on google. Again, if this is the wrong place to comment, I apologize! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/Women_in_Refrigerators Fcr 09:35, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep actually. Needs a mild rewrite... I remember reading about this ages ago. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:12, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• Change my mind - Rewrite and move to Women in Refrigerators Syndrome, in reference to Gail Simone's theorem. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 10:15, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• Did some edits to the entry, including outside references where appropriate, and the removal of content that I couldn't verify via another source. The terms 'Girlfriend in Refrigerator Syndrome' and 'Women in Refrigerator Syndrome' don't appear in the site where the term 'Women in Refrigerators' originated. Neither term is as common as 'Women in Refrigerators' (done with a search of 'Women in Refrigerators comic books'). The term 'Girlfriend in Refrigerators' appears to have originated on Wikipedia. I referenced both terms in the article for clarity, and noted that neither term appears in the original source documents,. and 'Girlfriend in Refrigerators' appears to have been an invention (accidental?) of someone writing whoever wrote the original 'Girlfriend in Refrigerator' Wikipedia entry. Is 'Women in Refrigerators Syndrome' still an appropriate article title? I think the early whimsy and lack of references in the redone article I wrote might've caused a problem, so I did my best to correct it. Fcr 14:07, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• There is one thing about the title 'Women in Refrigerators Syndrome'. The author who coined the term, Gail Simone, has never referred to a Syndrome. As the previous revision described, she did create a list of superheroines and send it out to comicbook fans and professionals--which sparked discussion (and continues to spark discussion on-line). She then published the list and responses (with help) online under the name 'Women in Refrigerators.' The term 'Women in Refrigerators' didn't exist until the website was created, and she's never described the list and the responses as a 'Syndrome.' Lauren Dayap (in late 2004, in this article) made an off-hand comment and said 'the girlfriend in the refrigerator syndrome' without explaining what the term meant. This is the closest reference linking what Gail Simone said to 'Syndrome' that exists on-line prior to June 2005. The intent of the article was as a better reference source for anyone doing research on the subject, the site list and site that sparked and still sparks discussion, Gail Simone, women in comics, women on the Internet, with links to the original site if a reader wanted to dig a little deeper into the meaning material. Titling the article 'Women in Refrigerators Syndrome' would essentially be coining a new term. The most accurate term is 'Women in Refrigerators' (which was coined by Gail Simone for the website where the materials were originally published). Anyway, I thought it was important to add that ... in fact, it might make a good extra addition to the article if it doesn't get deleted. Phew, I gotta work on that brevity, sorry everyone!Fcr 18:44, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep referenced, 12k google - but the article should be about the term or the syndrome, not the website, so perhaps rewrite or move -- Astrokey44|talk 15:05, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Sounds like a useful and encyclopedic article. I wouldn't be against renaming it or whatever but the basic content should stay. Cyde Weys _vote^talk 15:33, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Move and keep per above: fairly well known theory about misogynism in comic books. Smerdis of Tlön 15:41, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, verifiable, sparked a lot of discussion. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 17:42, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Meekohi 20:04, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Without this article, I would've been totally confused and edited out references in other articles. --JD 23:04, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep -- Dragonfiend 03:03, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Definately a comic phenomenon worth mentioning in Wikipedia. Technogeek 00:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep it.
  • Comment Please remember to sign your vote with four tilde (~) characters. According to the edit history, this vote was from 68.87.100.242. I took the liberty of setting it to the proper format as well. Technogeek 00:51, 15 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.