Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Silent velcro

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 merge and redirect. ugen 64 04:00, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Silent velcro
Appears to be a prank entry, the only references I can find for silent velcro are that it appeared as a joke in the movie "Garden State". The alleged inventor also seems not to be verifiable - he was also added to November 9 births under 1985 by the same anon contributor who created the silent velcro article, so I strongly suspect a prank. -- Ferkelparade &pi; 07:45, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * redirect (if nothing better comes). Insert a sentence into the spoiler of the Garden State and redirect there, since the term gets quite a few google hits. Mikkalai 08:26, 4 Apr 2005
 * Redirect to discourage recreation - David Gerard 09:25, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, prank or hoax. Megan1967 09:25, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, the current content is prank, but the word circulates, and I bet some people would like to know what the heck it is. Mikkalai 15:20, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Failed to substantiate this prank on snopes.com, so I don't think it's a notable hoax. As such, delete and add redirect per D.Gerard. Radiant_* 17:32, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I was speaking about its usage in Garden State movie. Mikkalai 01:41, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I haven't seen that one. Very well, redirect there. Radiant_* 07:26, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Correct info to reflect joke from Garden State then merge and redirect to velcro. --Fuzzball! 22:40, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: stub rewritten. --Fuzzball! 22:52, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Don't redirect.  That's a meaningless redirect.  RickK 23:59, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable/prank. &#8212; Sesel wa  01:22, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as now cleaned up. The military research bit counts as an urban legend (until verified!). -- RHaworth 15:30, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
 * Keep There was a genuine competition launched by the US military which paid a handsome sum to the inventor of silent velcro. Can't find a reference yet though.
 * Comment from IP 12.151.32.25, which was also responsible for a series of hoax articles on the same day. Average Earthman 09:45, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. Rossami (talk) 04:50, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. --InShaneee 16:39, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It is not hoax. It is fiction, i.e., it is a real thing in a real work of fiction, namely, the movie. Also, there is something inherently funny in the term, so that it was picked up as a joke. (Or was it vice versa? the creators of the film picked a known joke to add some fun?) Anyway, the term is searchable, it is not a neologism, i.e., lives sufficently long. So the best idea IMO is my proposal above, rather than deleting. Mikkalai 17:04, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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