Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rasterbation

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The result of the debate was keep. Woohookitty 11:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Rasterbation
Looks like pure linkspam to me. And it became popular with this specific website's app? Heck, it was done with chain printers in the big iron era. --Pjacobi 10:48, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think the application is widespread enough to be considered notable, and the article has good potential for expansion. TheMadBaron 11:06, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Definite keep - the process and the term are very widespread. DS 14:46, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Evidence? I googled it and did find examples of it, but I also found a site using the term in a different sense. Weak keep, but it would benefit from additional references. --DavidConrad 21:31, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep from me as well. It's fairly common as a generic-ish term in some of the online communities I frequent, even though it's just a one-site web toy. Jessamyn 22:35, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please and not even a weak one Yuckfoo 04:15, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep it - many amateur artists now use this as a matter of course. "To rasterbate" is on the way to becoming a dictionariable verb.Vizjim 11:16, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to the more polite Tiled printing. Gazpacho 20:42, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * But the only thing notable about it is the name. The so-called "amateur artists" using the technique are doing no innovating nor artistic creation.  Frankly it was more interesting on 1970s chain printers as Pjacobi notes.  Had the article been about online pornography "active viewing", which is the only use of this word that I'd previously heard, it might at least have merited transwikification.  As it is, I vote delete as advertising for insufficiently notable web trivia.  Barno 22:51, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * If you know some history, by all means add it. Gazpacho
 * When I did it, not quite pre-Internet but far pre-World-Wide-Web, nobody found it notable enough for inclusion in print journals or books that I know of. IBMers sometimes seemed to spend more time on what are now called "emoticons" than on programming the actual data processing, and that didn't generally get recorded for posterity either.  Today, every junior-high-school kid's made-up game or made-up word gets put on a website and some people treat this as automatically conferring encyclopedic notability.  Barno 17:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't see why that means we shouldn't have an article about tiled printing, which is not some kid's neologism and is available in many well-known commercial programs. But your vote is noted. Gazpacho
 * MOVE and refer to Tiled Printing It serves a purpose to those who are not artistically inclined but would find great inspiration from it, like I and my colleagues did. ConradKilroy 23:00, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this is is a valid entry and could come in handy because people hear the term and then look it up. Liface 05:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep content and Move to 'tiled printing'. The specific Rasterbator program/website can be mentioned there. -SCEhardt 19:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
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