Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International caps lock day

International caps lock day 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

International caps lock day
Obscure "holiday". Gets only about 55 Google hits. --Diberri | Talk 18:40, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE: was going to go for save, but read teh website. Too stupid to be worth it, and people who talk in caps are just ANNOYING.
 * DELETE: NON-NOTABLE, PROBABLE JOKE. Geogre 18:59, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * SAVE: FAILURE TO CELEBRATE HOLIDAY INVALIDATES THIS VFD, SILLY DIBERRI -SYCOCOWZ
 * delete. nothing worth saving or mentioning here.  postdlf 19:04, 22 oct 2004 (utc)
 * Neutral: WHAT'S WRONG? YOU DELETE PEOPLE ARE ALL SPOILSPORTS. On a more serious note, I have to agree with Darksun, R. Fiend and Cynical. -Neronix
 * THE ONLY HOLIDAY OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED BY AOL INSTANT MESSENGER. BUT DELETE. Darksun 20:11, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * A meagre 55 google hits makes me think this isn't widespread enough to be encyclopediac, particularly for an online phenomena, which usually garner 10x the google hits a comparable offline phenomena would. By tomorrow everyone will have forgotten this. Delete. -R. fiend 20:17, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Google is not the allmighty god. Google does _not_ know everything. Just ask Radman about this way of importance-o-metre. ;) A neutral MadenMann...
 * SAVE: THE ONLY CRITERIA FOR NON-GOVERNMENTAL HOLIDAYS TO EXIST IS THAT PEOPLE CELEBRATE THEM. Dekaritae 20:24, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * What is your evidence that any significant number of people do observe it? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:55, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP Whether its a serious article or not, its a valid criticism of 'capslock shouting'. And just because Google doesn't have it (is this the same Google that lets you pay for a high ranking? I think so) doesn't make it incorrect. Most of the people who are obssessive enough to come up with an event like this don't bother making their pages 'google-friendly' anyway.--Cynical 20:19, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah, but anyone can start a holiday like this. There are hundreds of them, celebrated by a small group of people, sometimes just a dozen or less. Some of these recently invented holidays like International Talk Like a Pirate Day and Wintereenmas are notable, but this isn't. Darksun 20:25, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pointless and annoying, not wikipedia material. - Tezkah | Talk
 * DELETE -- AMUSING BUT NOT NOTABLE. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT THE "BIG BOOK OF JOKES". -- The Anome 20:59, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * SAVE - It may not be worthy of an encyclopedia article yet, but these things need to gain popularity somehow. - Irrelevant
 * An encyclopedia is not the place to promote something that wants to become notable. It's a repository for things that are already notable. Bearcat 23:38, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Abstain. Although this is clearly a joke, and is even categorized as such in the article, there are vague and not-so-vague references to this "CAPS LOCK DAY" dating back to 1996 on Usenet.  --Radman1 21:05, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP. THIS IS A VERY VALID HOLIDAY, THIS HOLIDAY CERTAINLY EXISTS.  --G3pro 22:38, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I HEREBY PROCLAIM INTERNATIONAL DELETE DAY. I have to say, I'm really annoyed by this recent trend of proclaiming insignificant holidays devoted to whatever stupid thing some goof with too much time on their hands thinks would be m4d k00l to devote a holiday to. (And yes, I do mean International Talk Like a Pirate Day.) Oh, and the website is bloody terrible, too. Bearcat 23:35, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * And how, exactly, would that differ from any other day on Wikipedia? ;-) Radman1 23:37, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Indrian 23:40, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity (article acknowledges it is the personal creation of a person who does not appear to be notable). Advertising. (Most obvious purpose is to publicize a website). Unless someone provides evidence that the day is actually observed by an official body the size of a city or larger, or evidence of genuine widespread use, this article should be deleted. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:53, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * delete Wolfman 01:29, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * THIS ARTICLE HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
 * Delete. -Sean Curtin 01:44, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * D sOMETHING SEEMS VERY *very* WRONG HERE, PERHAPS i JUST NEED SOME MORE pEACEFUL sLEEP. Chris 02:13, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * dELETE. sOMEHOW, SLEEP SOUNDS GOOD RIGHT ABOUT NOW.  aLL THIS SHOUTING IS GIVING ME A HEADACHE. - lUCKY 6.9 02:53, 23 oCT 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete.  &mdash;Lowellian (talk)   03:28, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I waited until after midnight (here in the eastern U.S.) so that I could cast my vote in normal casing with a clear conscience. JamesMLane 04:08, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Gamaliel 07:06, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Concur with Aranel, merge with Caps lock. Gamaliel 19:18, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * KEEP jtackmanThere's no real reason to delete this, people do celebrate this :)
 * KEEP, ditto. &#8212; Bill 14:03, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE -- BUT MOVE TO WP:BJAODN. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 14:30, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * dELETE. aLL HOLIDAYS ARE MADE UP, BUT THIS ONE IS TOO OBSCURE TO BE ENCYCLOPEDIC. aS A SIDE NOTE, i AM HAPPY TO SEE THAT WE ALL HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR. hURRAH! --Improv 16:25, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE. UNLIKE INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, MOLE DAY, AND PI DAY, THIS ONE HAS UTTERLY FAILED TO CATCH ON. FISHAL
 * Delete. A brief mention in Caps lock would preserve the information that is worth keeping. Also all this shouting is giving me a headache. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 18:51, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I agree with Aranel/Sarah.  &mdash;msh210]] 18:57, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Your headache will be worse on October 23rd, which is International Animated GIFS Day! [[Image:Ironyalert.gif]]
 * Delete. Isn't there some sort of page for obscure recently invented holidays?  And if not, why not? - Lifefeed 19:17, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP, i SEE SOME POTENTIAL OF ACTUALLY BECOMING ENCYCLOPEDIC, AND THEREFORE DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE DELETING THIS. &mdash; siro  &chi;  o  22:39, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * kEEP. wE SHOULD EXPAND THIS ARTICLE, TOO. --Lst27 22:48, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * DELETE. IT IS WAY TOO OBSCURE. NeoJustin 23:36 Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * KEEP - since when were Google hit tallies and obscurity bellweathers for deleting Wikipedia pages? Neuropedia 00:10, 2004 Oct 24 (UTC)
 * Probably since "neologism" and "not notable" were, if not before. Chris 01:22, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- WOT 21:54, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Joke/promo. Wile E. Heresiarch 18:45, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * kEEP. GRider 22:37, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete trivia. Isomorphic 16:41, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep because I say so...[[User:BrokenSegue|BrokenSegue]]
 * Delete not notable Ziggurat 21:27, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge to obscure holidays Key45 21:31, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep I am becoming somewhat disturbed at the level of deletionism occurring for what I think are worthy articles. There little, if any, harm in keeping interesting and esoteric material on Wikipedia.  If you do not want to know about this topic then you do not search for it.  However, if it is kept it will be here for people who do want to know about it.  Also be careful you do not suffer from Academic Standards Disease :o) --ShaunMacPherson 18:44, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep but merge and redirect to obscure holidays, which I agree with Key45 should be created anyway to eliminate clutter. Interesting in an odd way, and it may grow. Suntiger 20:43, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm changing my vote to keep but only if we do Key45 idea of putting it into an obscure holidays page. I would cross out my other vote up above but I don't know how to. NeoJustin 03:00 Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
 * One alternative is to keep a separate article on this holiday; a different alternative is to make this title a redirect to obscure holidays. I'm not clear which one you prefer.  To strike out a prior comment, precede it with and follow it with . JamesMLane 03:56, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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