Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ho ho ho (3rd 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 redirect to Santa Claus. Protected to prevent recreation. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 01:56, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Ho ho ho
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This page was first nominated for deletion in 2005 when the result was keep. It was nominated again in 2006 with the result merge/redirect to Santa Claus. Although that was actioned, the article was quickly recreated to avoid the redirect with the addition of a list of ‘Characters associated with this laugh’.

The Characters associated with this laugh section is referenced solely to YouTube videos, but even if proper citations could be found this can never amount to anything more than a list of fictional characters that are connected by some random fictional characteristic. It can no more be encyclopedic than, say, List of Fictional Characters Wearing Red Jumpers.

The article is fundamentally unencyclopedic and fails WP:NOT. Apart from a dictionary-style definition, the only useful information it contains is the reference to the Canadian postal code, information which has been included within the Santa Claus article for many years. It would be better replaced with the text of what is now Ho ho ho (disambiguation), with an added link to Santa Claus. MichaelMaggs (talk) 09:18, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. KAP03Talk 19:35, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Popular culture-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:39, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 03:57, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete and Redirect to Santa Claus. The consensus was reached to redirect/merge it a decade ago, and just because a user subsequently decided to ignore the AFD and restore it doesn't mean that consensus is no longer valid.  Especially when it concerns an article as vapid and unsourced as this one.  The article space should be restored to a redirect, but I think the article should be deleted first, as to eliminate the history to prevent another such case of an attempted restore.  64.183.45.226 (talk) 18:06, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete & redirect to Santa Claus, and possibly lock the redirect so that the article is not recreated. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:49, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete, Salt and Redirect to Santa Claus - Non notable to warrant an article however deleting and locking obviously prevents it from being created. – Davey 2010 Talk 01:46, 11 January 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.