Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alt.tasteless


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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 17:03, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Alt.tasteless

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The only coverage I can find of this website is this Wired article and this coverage in a book. This and other assorted mentions appear to only be regarding the one event (regarding rec.pets.cats). Sam Walton (talk) 19:03, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete - Searches at (News, Books, browser, highbeam and thefreelibrary) found nothing significant aside from this (Books) and some Highbeam. Nothing to suggest this has received coverage in the slightest. SwisterTwister   talk  18:42, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:56, 20 June 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: Probably a merge and redirect is the best idea, but I doubt it should go to Usenet. If it weren't for alt.tasteless, we wouldn't have deviantart, probably 4Chan, about half of Reddit, etc. There is a historical importance to this group, although those of us who stayed far, far, far away from it are not inclined to memorialize it, and the people who were in it probably aren't very much involved in nostalgia. Hithladaeus (talk) 11:53, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:20, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - one "report" in Wired magazine on mischievous internet trolling is not "significant coverage in independent sources". This is ready for the garbage bin. Kraxler (talk) 19:59, 5 July 2015 (UTC)


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