Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ask a Stupid Question Day (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Overall consensus within this discussion is for the article to be retained, although more input from other users would have been ideal. (Non-administrator closure.) Northamerica1000(talk) 22:07, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Ask a Stupid Question Day
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A non-notable holiday that is observed by 'some schools in the US'. People ask stupid questions all the time what makes this day notable than any other and the sources are far from reliable, Also the previous AfD was in 2005 and everyone who voted keep gave no real reason why the article should be kept other than WP:Other stuff exists  Jay  Jay What did I do? 19:25, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It is also to note that this article was created by a unregistered user (things must have been different in 2005) and judging by the first revision I think this article was ment to be a hoax See Here  Jay  Jay What did I do? 19:31, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:45, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:45, 28 December 2013 (UTC)


 * A better reason for keeping is that this is an independently and reliably, albeit sparsely, documented thing. Even a mere modicum of research &mdash; One doesn't even have to use more specialist tools like the Google News Archive. &mdash; turns up documentation of this day in books going back to 1984.  There are quite a few preceding the 2005 creation of this article, clearly indicating that this was not made up directly in Wikipedia; and the fact that yet another editor apparently couldn't write an article for toffee is not a valid rationale for deletion.  It's a valid rationale for cleanup (and perhaps encouraging that person to learn how to write).  "David Larzelere sponsored the second annual ASK A 'STUPID' QUESTION DAY on September 30, 1985. People are encouraged to ask questions on this day, no matter how stupid the question. The day is listed in Chases' Annual Events &#91;&hellip;&#93;" "September 30 Friday &mdash; ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY Purpose: To encourage curious people to overcome their timidity and ask the 'stupid' question. &#91;&hellip;&#93;"
 * In the same vein, JayJay, please learn how to nominate at AFD. Do your research first.  It took about 2 minutes with Google Books to turn up documentation of this subject that is clearly not derived from Wikipedia, including some interesting news articles that indicate that newspapers would be profitable places for an actual encyclopaedia writer to explore.  You don't serve Wikipedia by not researching the stuff that you think is bogus.  Research is how you find out if it actually is bogus, or is genuine and simply written by someone with next to no writing ability.  Nominating things because they were created by editors without accounts, and because your personal opinion is that the thing is stupid/worthless, is wrong and damaging.  (Imagine if everyone did it!  Actually you don't have to.  Witness the chaos back in 2005 and before when in fact that's what many people did.)  Notability is not subjective.  Uncle G (talk) 19:58, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your consecutive criticism. I would take all your points into consideration when nominating new articles for deletion. I have recently took a long break from this website due to being too busy in general, so I'm a bit rusty.  Jay  Jay What did I do? 15:21, 30 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 04:37, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Guerillero  &#124;  My Talk  07:08, 15 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep It has received widespread coverage both geographically (including UK and India) and in time since the 1980s. Notability isn't clear-cut, as coverage while widespread tends to be quite shallow e.g. "ok there's this day, now here's some stupid questions", but I don't see an obvious merge target, and it fulfils Wikipedia's educational purpose to carry this article. --Colapeninsula (talk) 12:51, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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