Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.  

The result was delete. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 05:01, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Star War The Third Gathers: The Backstroke of the West


Internet meme that has been widely discussed on various message boards and forums, but with no reliable sources. There are only 115 Google hits excluding blogs, forums and wikis. There are no reliable sources in these results. The article is also largely original research, and for this reason does not deserve to be merged to list of Internet phenomena. Hence I do not want this article. (Note that this was previously deleted in AfD as Backstroke of the west; this is a repost by a different editor and almost certain to be substantially different.) Kavadi carrier 08:43, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, however I have tagged it as a speedy G4 to see whether this is a repost. MER-C 09:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * G4 doesn't appear to apply; Backstroke of the west, the deleted article, was basically a substub while this article is much longer, so yes, this appears to be substantially different enough to warrant AfD discussion. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 11:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Wow, I remember finding and cleaning up this article, like a year ago, it seems. It survived this long, and now it's up for deletion, and possibly speedy delete?  I remember researching it, and it seemed a fairly huge Internet phenomenon, at the time.  Has it fallen out of popularity after this long?  Wavy G 10:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete too much original tinkering, I'm afraid. However, there's an Wookieepedia article that has essentially the same information anyway, so I guess deleting it here won't be a big loss. At most mention-worthy in the SW3:RotS article. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 11:23, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, fancruft, not enough reliable sources, verifiability problems. --Ter e nce Ong (C 12:44, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unlike most "internet phenomena", this is authentically hilarious. However, lack of reliable sourcing kills it.  The Wookieepedia article will have to do. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  13:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - it may be funny, but it doesn't belong, as is, in WP. I suppose it could be salvaged if it were to be written up as an actual film rather than as an internet meme. -- wtfunkymonkey 16:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete really un-notable. Cruft clogging the Internet's series of tubes. The redirect should be deleted, too. Anomo 03:30, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I oppose deletion of this page. The sources of the English text are well documented on the Internet - they can easily be seen and found. The derivations of the "Chinglish" phrases from the Chinese are obvious and clear to anyone who is reasonably familiar with the Chinese language, the Chinese versions of the Star Wars movies and the nature of machine translation. It is a good resource to anyone who wonders why the Chinglish is the way it is on that particular film 59.121.188.158 11:01, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Clean UpI think more links and a references section should be added. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cake and Biscuits (talk • contribs) 17:02, 11 November 2006 (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.