Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of school pranks (3rd nomination)


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The result was delete. Tone 18:40, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

List of school pranks
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Clearly fails WP:GNG. Also note WP:NOTDIR. Very little is gained from an incomplete listing of potential ways that kids in school can make trouble. This is an encyclopedia, not reddit. In a previous discussion, arguments along the lines of Everything on this page is real were made, including "I have been out of school for 25 years but have either been on the giving or receiving end of nearly all of the pranks." and "school pranks are well known and easily verifiable", however that is not reason enough to keep an article.  Puzzledvegetable Is it teatime already?  18:22, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  Puzzledvegetable  Is it teatime already?  18:22, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  Puzzledvegetable  Is it teatime already?  18:22, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * I'd advocate delete largely because the entire history is constant addition of bullshit that then has to be removed. It's a magnet for idiots and adds nothing over what's in the school prank article. Guy (help!) 18:53, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * There is no school prank article, it was renamed list of school pranks in 2008.  D r e a m Focus  20:37, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. None of these are particularly known for "primarily occurring in a school setting", e.g. mooning. They're just your run-of-the-mill pranks. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:43, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * KEEP but rename to List of adolescent pranks. These aren't all done in schools after all.   D r e a m Focus  20:37, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
 * What's wrong with the existing List of practical joke topics (other than the clumsy title)? Some of the entries (those with, you know, actual articles) are already there, e.g. Pantsing, Wedgie. Clarityfiend (talk) 09:12, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * These are not practical jokes but bullying attack. Some things on that list do not belong there.  We could also just put things like that in a renamed list called list of abusive attacks immature morons considered amusing.   D r e a m Focus  15:05, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 16:31, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per Guy. Personally, WP:BEANS also comes to mind but I guess that's not really a persuasive argument for deletion. Ifnord (talk) 22:22, 21 January 2020 (UTC)


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