Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panty raid


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The result was Speedy keep as per WP:SNOW and well done to Edison for his improvements. Capitalistroadster 02:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Panty raid

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This article has never had any reliable sources. Most of the content is a "popular culture" section, most of which appears to be original research. Guy (Help!) 09:47, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. While the article is in very poor condition, articles that have intrinsically notable topics should not be deleted but edited up to spec.  RandomCritic 14:36, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep While this article could use cleanup, the terminology has reached sufficiently widespread acceptance to pass WP:NEO (per a cursory news article search and aforementioned pop culture citations), and passes WP:WINAD by offering more than a simple definition. Eliz81(talk)(contribs) 15:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. -- Finngall  talk  16:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with above. 345th 17:15, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Added four references to panty raids from Time magazine, from 1952 through 1962. I could not find a detailed timeline of demise of the fad. Campus papers would be a good and proper source, given that references such as Time establish the notability. (O.R. warning: I was at a large college during the last panty raid one spring and the first anti-Vietnam War protest the following spring. The atmosphere and mood seemed remarkably similar. There is probably a published reference to that somewhere. Maybe panty raids started up again after the Vietnam War, but with guys and girls in adjoining rooms of the dorm and few rules against cohabitation, it would seem rather pointless). Anything unreferenced from a "popular culture" section could be tagged as such and then edited out after a decent interval. Edison 17:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Edison has established notability of the term. Hut 8.5 17:48, 3 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep, notable fad term still used today as analogy. Excellent WP:HEY work by Edison. --Dhartung | Talk 19:18, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Snowball keep per Edison's additions. Good work Edison! Ten Pound Hammer  • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?) 20:09, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep dumb but notable bit of culture. One of the extremely few genuinely notable things made up in school one day. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  21:27, 3 August 2007 (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.