Talk:Nimrod Kamer

Nimrod Kamer is an Israeli prankster.
See http://www.dailydot.com/society/nimrod-kamer-wikipedia-deletion-celebrity-prank/ and http://nnimrodd.tumblr.com/wikifix -- Man  way  04:10, 18 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah those sources are in the article. So what? He does a lot of things. The article is well sourced and AfD consensus was Keep. Please don't disrupt Wikipedia with Speedy Delete templates right after an AfD closed Keep. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 05:38, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: Move. Cúchullain t/ c 18:53, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Nimrod Kämer → Nimrod Kamer – The requested name Nimrod Kamer was long ago salted due to old AfD issues. The article more recently had a new AfD which passed Keep. The current name with the umlaut is a minor variant which was probably chosen to get around the salt, but also a couple of the sources have used it. However, the majority of sources use "Kamer" w/out the umlaut. More importantly, all the sources from when Kamer was in Israel - where he is originally from - use the plain spelling. I believe the umlaut might be a form of joke or prank instigated by Kamer himself, and not the real spelling of his name at all. Whatever the case, the majority of sources use "Kamer" including his home country. Green Cardamom (talk) 19:15, 19 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Support - Seems uncontroversial. The vast majority of sources do not include the umlaut. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:01, 27 November 2013 (UTC)


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Promotional forum
The article is becoming a WP:RESUME. Every single piece and appearance is included, it reads like a promotional advertisement. I've removed sources by Kamer, and only included sources about Kamer. Wikipedia is a secondary-source based encyclopedia, if others have commented on Kamer than that is notable and it should be included, but including primary sources by Kamer is turning the article into a promotional forum. -- Green  C  17:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Finger hashtag
The "finger hashtag" pre-dates Kamer, there is an example from The Guardian in 2012 by Tom Meltzer. Kamer claims to have invented the gesture in this article: But in the comments section of that article someone posted a Flickr image dated 2009, and anyway it's such an obvious and simple gesture that claims of invention are questionable. At best Kamer can say he helped "popularize" it (is it popular?) by being the second journalist in the world to publish an article in a mainstream source on a (possibly) emerging hand gesture.. -- Green  C  01:06, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Daily Mail piece and Don't Panic video
Reverted this. For the Daily Mail piece it's tabloid and not encyclopedic, every time Kamer shows up at an event that gets mentioned in the press isn't encyclopedic. The Wall Street Journal is a blog, it just links to the video with no in-depth reporting, and it's a promotional video Kamer was hired to produce. If there is more serious and in depth reporting I'd reconsider. -- Green  C  13:48, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Old version of article
There's an old version of the article that is actually well written and detailed going far beyond this one. However it's entirely unsourced and obviously written by Nimrod. There might be material that could be worked into this article if sources could be found to support. The URL is http://www.state.com/encyclopedia/Nimrod-Kamer but "statemaster" not "state" (blocked due to blacklist). -- Green  C  20:02, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

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