Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hopkin Green Frog (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 Consensus to delete per BLP concerns and lack of reliable sources. Chillum 20:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Hopkin Green Frog
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Someone's poster of a missing toy frog that was a running joke online for a while. No indication of any wider notability outside of being a joke. Not a single link or source of anything reliable, except for a journal article on the topic of memes which mentions its existence. - Vianello (Talk) 02:21, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm not necessarily arguing for the deletion of this article, but I do have to say that we should take into consideration that this meme is ultimately about a young autistic boy that lost a toy. I'll have to find the specific news article, but I remember reading about this and the parents weren't entirely happy about how much coverage their son's posters had received. In any case, my point is that this might be a BLP issue since the parents were pretty gung ho about avoiding media attention for the longest time and when they did surface, it was basically to say that they were unaware that he'd done this and that they didn't want anyone to try to contact Terry (the little boy) or try to give him a new toy because it might be traumatic for him. That's my biggest concern here, since I do think that there was enough coverage to possibly warrant a mention somewhere. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:25, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * If this is kept, we will probably want to remove the child's address from the article. I know that this is available elsewhere, but I'm really not comfortable having an address for a minor on Wikipedia. Even if the family has since moved, this is still an issue for whomever is living there now. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:29, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Here's the article I was thinking of. The basic gist of the story is that the parents weren't entirely happy with the fact that the fliers were out there and they were also not too happy that their personal information was floating around on the Internet. There's not a lot of coverage in places that would really count as a RS, so I'm leaning towards deleting this just because it is about someone who is not only a minor but is also autistic. I don't think I'll change my mind unless I find an awfully large amount of coverage. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:38, 3 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. Ultimately it looks like only one person has really covered this: Michele Knobel. There's some coverage in non-reliable sources and I suppose that we could probably argue that this could be merged into List of Internet phenomena, but I'm arguing for just removing this because there was an autistic minor involved in this. 11 years have passed and while he's no longer a minor, he is still autistic. I have no idea if this is a mild or severe form of autism, but I'm not really comfortable keeping an article on here either way. From what I can see, the parents weren't too happy that people from the Internet were tracking them down and contacting them over this, so I'm going to assume that they wouldn't be too happy that this is on Wikipedia either. Since the coverage is pretty small and even the Know Your Meme article is pretty tiny, I don't think that there's going to be any huge void left behind if this is quietly removed from Wikipedia. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:52, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. North America1000 04:58, 3 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per Tokyogirl79's comments. &mdash;&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T&middot;E&middot;C) 00:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - there's a garbage bin in any office, let's use it accasionally without making a fuss about it. Kraxler (talk) 18:31, 11 July 2015 (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.