Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Programmer's Day

There is no evidence or source provided for the existance of this holiday. I've been involved in the realm of technology nearly my entire life and never have heard of this. --Lysol 19:42, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * I have read about it somewhere, but was it this Wikipedia article or some other place? Googling for "Programmer's Day" -Wikipedia 256 returns 17 hits, including a few weblogs and an electronic version of a Latvian IT magazine . So, it's not a fabrication but might be quite obscure. Delete because of obscurity. Andris 19:56, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a vehicle for social change of this sort. Further, this is by no means notable. Delete.
 * The above vote was cast by User:Pgunn.
 * So this holiday exists, and the fact that it's obscure isn't a good argument to delete it, in my opinion. My vote is Keep. --positron 23:11, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC)
 * Keep. I celebrate this with my friends/neighbours/coworkers, its a lot of fun.  obscurity should be no reason for deletion.  Applegoddess 01:18, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. God doesn't exist either and he gets a big article.Lmno 13:08, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Obscurity is, in fact, a perfect reason to delete it. Encyclopedic content is of notable items.  If no one knows about this but the blogosphere, then it's not appropriate for Wikipedia.  By all means, though, the folks at Everything2 will want to know about it.  There are many places on the Internet to write about it.  An online encyclopedia is not.  Geogre 02:40, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete. No one's paying me to stay home that day. Denni &#9775; 03:50, 2004 Sep 13 (UTC)
 * Delete. What Geogre said.  Also, something that's a significant part of hacker culture ought to get more Google hits than this does.   &mdash;Triskaideka 04:55, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, if reference provided. - pir 10:07, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ambi 09:05, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't believe it exists in any meaningful sense. I've sent my system administator an e-card on System Admin's Day, but have never heard of "Programmer's day". Only 150 Google hits and a lot of them irrelevant ("hi i am student in usa i was just curious how does an average programmers day goes by", "For system design, smart card project manager, engineers and programmers, day 1 of the training serves as a foundation and overview"...) [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 16:31, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Dpbsmith, you're my idol! Dpbsmith2 21:29, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * You can say that again! Dpbsmith3 21:39, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Dpbsmith, you're my idol! Dpbsmith2 21:49, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Dpbsmith's vote should be counted a dozen times! NotASockPuppet 21:59, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * No, a hundred times! A milliard! A googol! AnotherRealUser 21:69, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Part of silly hacker culture, but so what?
 * The above vote was cast by User:Frecklefoot.
 * Redirect to hacker culture, with its own section. It seems to me that a lot of deletion occurs around here, where a simple merge and redirect to an appropriate article is possible. func(talk) 18:49, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't find any reliable confirmation on this thing's existence, (and I apologize for voting without looking it up in the first place). func(talk) 15:34, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - mathematical fantasy with more to do with numbers and nothing to do with programmers - T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  20:26, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep I further propose that wikipedia be renamed to triviapedia and nominate Trivial Pursuit as the official game of triviapedia.  The Steve  00:01, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. I bothered to vote on this one only because of the barrage of phony "Keep" votes.  If the time spent trying to stuff the ballot box had been spent researching and writing a legitimate argument for retention, this might've had a chance. JamesMLane 03:42, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-encyclopedic.  SWAdair | Talk  04:16, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probably my vote is unnecessary but we have recently seen votes from what seemed to be equally obvious sock puppets being counted. Jallan 21:29, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete - does not appear to exist. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 02:53, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Anon (invalid) votes
(contributions; up to a sysop to decide whether to count this vote)
 * Can't find any solid evidence (most pages use Wikipedia as their source) except for a few weblogs. Googled for "Programmer's Day" -Wikipedia -Encyclopedia September: found an article suggesting that a Russian petition was set up to make this an official holiday, once. In any case, some friends and I celebrated it and will continue to do so in future - is that enough? =o) [IP]
 * It is real, but it is part of the "Hacker Culture", not mainstream. I think that is a fine thing though.  I would like to see more Hacker Culture become mainstream. Let's keep it. David Battle [IP]
 * Keep: I vote, one day, I hope this will become an official holliday, I'll continue to celebrate it with my programmer friends. ToS[MTS] Sep 13. 2004 [IP]
 * Keep: My friends and I celebrate it. My wife is a sysadmin and she has a professional holiday, programmers need it too to have a reason to drink yet more beer. Izard Sep 13. 2004 [IP]
 * Comment: Votes from IP-only users and brand-new user IDs are likely to be discounted; see Deletion_guidelines_for_administrators. I've marked these votes with [IP].  I've also unified a single contribution that was mistakenly split into two; see  and  to see what happened.   &mdash;Triskaideka 16:11, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep: I disagree that obscurity is a good reason for deletion. If I already know something, why would I come to an encyclopedia to find out about it? User:CMShawn|CMShawn 16:00 2004 Sep 13 (PDT) [IP] (contributions)
 * Keep. Rename to "Unofficial Programmer's Day" and keep it. [IP]
 * Keep. sena 13:37, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) Rename to "Unofficial Programmer's Day" and keep it. [IP?] *Keep. One person's (or one group's) interpretation of what is notable is not the measure of what is worth keeping. More people observe this holiday than exist in the Jon Frum movement in Vanuatu. Should information about that also be excluded? You are not an encyclopedist any more or less than the rest of us. Encyclopediae exist to chronicle fact. Programmer's Day, and when it falls, is a fact. The holiday's existence is not misleading, or contradictory, or based in opinion. If this is deleted, be consistent in your opinion and also delete any nodes on Christmas, Yom Kippur, Secretary's Day, Father's Day, Casimir Pulaski Day, and definately Pi Day. [IP]
 * Keep If people are celebrating this it should be kept. Even if it's a new thing to appear among programmers, it does no harm. [IP]
 * Keep Bottom line - this IS celebrated, it doesn't matter who/when it was made up. Our boss bought us pizza for programmers day this year.  Should we remove Christmas as well because not everyone celebrates it? - SuperJason [IP] (contributions)

Above are invalid anon votes - not counted

 * Delete. Too many suspicious Keep votes.  RickK 19:36, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)