Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exploding Wales (0th nomination)

Exploding Wales was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to redirect the article.

This article is inoffensive and possibly even (very) mildly amusing, but it seems no more than a private joke made in the hope that somebody will mistype "exploding whales". Jocular typo-alternatives to real articles will soon get very tedious and waste a lot of space. Hoary 02:58, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I think that this is silly enough that it is a valid speedy deletion. If not, then my vote is delete ClockworkTroll 03:00, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Obvious WP:BJAODN candidate. :-). Pretty funny, actually. But lets move it immediately: Colorless_green_bad_jokes_and_other_deleted_nonsense_sleep_furiously. I deleted the actual page (let's call it a speedy, or something...) &mdash; David Remahl 03:02, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy was fine with me, but y'all could have made it a spelling redirect to the Exploding whales article, you know. Geogre 05:01, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Spelling redirects are accepted, but at the moment, typo redirects are not. It is doubtful that anyone should spell "whales" incorrectly for any reason other than a mislaid finger. - Vague Rant 05:15, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Or dyslexia. Or simply poor spelling in the English language. Spelling "whales" as "wales" (homonyms, i believe such words are called) is not unreasonable if English is not your first language. &mdash; David Remahl 05:57, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * My thought was that "Whale"/"Wale" is a pretty common misunderstanding and that young folk, in particular, would make the mistake. Geogre 15:55, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep as redirect. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  09:13, Nov 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * And I thought this was going to be about the fiery demise of the Welsh. In any case, I see no harm in keeping it as a redirect. [[User:Livajo|&#21147;&#20255;|&#9786;]] 15:23, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * It's harmless as a redirect, I wouldn't object to keeping it.Pedant 03:54, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

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