Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/\\suicidal
\\suicidal was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. 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 DELETE
I know nothing about this kind of thing, but suspect it's not notable? — Bill 19:48, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- It seems to have meaning only to people at the school involved, and as it represents one IP address, it's not really too important, apparently. Delete. Mo0 20:13, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
You are correct that it refers to only one persons cmputer at a single school, but within that school this represents so much more to the students. It has gotten wide spread acceptance as the place to go to entertain. Keep.
Mkrupnic 21:18, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) Change my vote to redirect to Stevens Institute of Technology, since i moved the material there as sugested.
Mkrupnic 16:48, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. No evidence this is even remotely encyclopedic. Andrewa 21:38, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Delete. It's only notable to the students at that particular school.Changing my vote to redirect to Stevens Institute of Technology, since the material is now covered there. [[User:Lachatdelarue|Lachatdelarue (talk)]] 23:19, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)- Delete, non-notable. Gazpacho 04:34, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it is non-existant or not notable. The Incoming Freshmen knew it existed before they even got to Stevens. OBVIOUSLY, it has some notability even outside of Stevens. I say we keep it. What sort of renegade network server has this sort of notariety? Seriously...its a part of culture at Stevens Tech, and therefor worthy of note. Who knows. They do say we train the leaders of tomorrow... ;) Keep. --Imerali 23:39, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 00:12, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Breathtakingly unencyclopedic. --jpgordon{gab} 00:23, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Dude! Dude! Me and my buddies at our school, like, we all know about the suicide game on the old Vax. It was, like, totally pirate. You had just failed Org Chem and wouldn't get into med school, so you entered your height and weight and told how far from the railing of the top of the library you wanted to start your run, and then the program, like, told you where you splatted and if you managed to, like, die or not. It was soooooo kewel. You wanted to look that up in the encyclopedia, right? You care, right? It's important to you, right? No? Delete: Wikipedia is not a campus server guide. Geogre 01:07, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- BTW, that was true. There was such a game in the old days at Emory University. It was continually deleted from the mainframe and continually added back. The trick of the game was that it was hard to "die." Most of the time, it said that you ended up in the constant care of doctors, your classmates who passed organic chemistry. Geogre 04:36, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Well, it is an encyclopedia. Nobody said it was an encyclopedia of a specific type. Frankly, I believe miscellaneous oddities make an encyclopedia more complete. KEEP Nobody ever said it was a campus server guide. And please don't talk down to us. This is becoming a flame fest very very fast. --Imerali 03:50, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Geogre, from reading your profile, I have gathered that you don't believe in blanket inclusion. This, however, is deserving of inclusion. The fact of the matter is that this is on the same level as the MIT "Hack". It is a school culture item that is part of the very fabric of school society. To be honest with you, seeing the suicidal article made me want to attempt to contribute. What I think is not relavant, and not deserving of being here, is the fact that the dining hall is crap, or that the administration is inherently corrupt. \\suicidal is legand here at Stevens. KEEP --Imerali 04:02, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ok, again sorry for the biting, but your first argument was a taunt. I do have an amicable solution to suggest. Why not contribute this material to the Stevens Institute of Technology article in a section on "Student Life?" What you won't know is that we have been bombarded with campus lore. We had an organized effort from Dartmouth College where we had about 40 articles on very, very minor and local "legends." The solution there was the same as here: preserve the information, but in the student life section of the university's entry. My point is that if a thing is not known outside of its master topic, it should not be broken you. You say that incoming students knew about the server. I don't know whether that's true, but it's pretty hard to verify. From here, it looks like a thing that's very significant in the context of the campus only, which would mean that the article would be best in the campus material. Geogre 04:34, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- I have added to the Stevens Institute of Technology page as was sugested by Georgo. Aditionally i have added other local legends to the page. Thanks for the sugestion. I was not sure where it would be appropiate, but i do agree that it deserves some notoriety. Thanks. Mkrupnic 07:49, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Ok, again sorry for the biting, but your first argument was a taunt. I do have an amicable solution to suggest. Why not contribute this material to the Stevens Institute of Technology article in a section on "Student Life?" What you won't know is that we have been bombarded with campus lore. We had an organized effort from Dartmouth College where we had about 40 articles on very, very minor and local "legends." The solution there was the same as here: preserve the information, but in the student life section of the university's entry. My point is that if a thing is not known outside of its master topic, it should not be broken you. You say that incoming students knew about the server. I don't know whether that's true, but it's pretty hard to verify. From here, it looks like a thing that's very significant in the context of the campus only, which would mean that the article would be best in the campus material. Geogre 04:34, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Of only local (very, very local) interest. Barely coherent without context. — Gwalla | Talk 04:30, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete
Redirect toStevens Institute of Technology - it's already mentioned in enough detail there and doesn't warrant a separate article. violet/riga (t) 11:14, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC) - Delete, do not redirect. Subtrivial. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:01, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Even three keep votes (by the SAME USER) won't keep this afloat. Delete. Mike H 06:05, Oct 30, 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. Most schools have about a million of these. Passw0rd 14:25, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. My workplace has a share called \\classified_work where we keep our MP3 files and pirated movies and it's as encyclopedic as this is. jni 15:49, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. No general interest whatsoever. --Nought 16:17, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
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