Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fauxtest

Fauxtest 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 delete.

As far as I know, both the words "propest" and "fauxtest" were invented by Lowtax in the Something Awful Forums thread in which he introduced the new Propest/Fauxtesting forum. This is not encyclopedic. silsor 02:18, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

Update: just to clarify, it is not widespread or occurring independently in different locations; all these events are organized through the Something Awful Forum dedicated to "propesting", for which the words were invented. silsor 16:06, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete: Not encyclopedic, not yet widespread. I'm glad to see the kids going outside for something, of course.  Geogre 02:54, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep: Well written article about a legitimate activity which seems to be occuring in various locations independantly of the others. Borderline notable, IMHO. (Changed vote, see below.) - Vaelor 04:41, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a properly written article and I think it's (just about) widespread enough to be encyclopedic. David Johnson 11:43, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) Changing my vote after reading above clarification. Not widespread, not notable. Delete. David Johnson 16:36, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism that does not seem to have caught on yet; if it does we can write an article on it later. - Andre Engels 13:27, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete 3 google hits. (humorous, perhaps, but encyclopedic? not yet.) - Amgine 15:55, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete Pretty much an advertisement of the Something Awful Forums. Not widespread. Octalc0de 00:35, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unfortunately this kind of behavior is not yet widespread enough to merit an article. [[User:Livajo|&#21147;&#20255;|&#9786;]] 00:37, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic. Once this phenomenon attains the general public's attention as flash mobs did (which I don't doubt it will, eventually) then there should be an article.  Not before. Ctz 00:46, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. This isn't a "mass phenomenon," this is an idea conceived by amateur comedian Lowtax and executed by a bunch of his shit-nosed Something Awful Forums members feigning interest at the slightest chance of achieving moderatorship. 66.92.130.54 01:16, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * : rolleyes: silsor 05:46, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, for now. This is apparently a legit neologism (though fairly uncommon; I cite ), and you never know when this type of thing will become popular. Or, merge with flash mob. --Fermatprime 19:53, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's so little to write about this kind of thing, and it is arguably just a form of advetisement. I'd adopt a strict dictionary standard on this; if you can find an original reference going back five years or so, then consider putting it in a dictionary.  It isn't encyclopedic in my opinion.  --Minority Report (entropy rim riot) 01:26, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge. Just noting that this article is just linked from the article for Something Awful Forums. --84.118.155.181 01:58, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge - if this really is just an activity solely organised on one web forum, with no independant occurences happening outside of what the members of this one site organize, then scrap this article and merge with Something Awful Forums. I once encouraged viewers of one of my sites to email me naked pictures of their girlfriends, that doesn't make the concept encyclopedic. =) - Vaelor 14:43, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:09, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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