Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Etherkiller

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 of the debate was Delete. On a straight tally, the result is 5k/10d (one keep is weak), placing this within the realm of discretionary deletion. Even several keep voters acknowledge that this topic's claim to notability arises from an internet comic, and that the topic is already mentioned in the article for that comic. I believe that there is consensus that this article should not exist on its own, and that it is adequately covered elsewhere. After deleting, I will create a redirect to the parent comic in my capacity as an ordinary editor. Xoloz 18:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Etherkiller

Non notable. It's just a cable someone made up, Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. Tim 10:59, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - inane article idea. Peripitus 11:51, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Almost BJAODN. DarthVad e r 12:12, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete but consider also killing its life as an article in its own right and move to BJADON doktorb | words 14:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I think the people saying that it should be moved to BJAODN don't realise that it's an old joke and simply think it's something a vandal made up on the spur of the moment, like almost everything that ends up in BJAODN. Since it's not, and those two votes were made in ignorance, they should be discounted. jgp 14:07, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:BAD. Beno1000 15:00, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Common joke amongst networking folks, apparently first used in the Bastard Operator from Hell column. Clocks up 17500 ghits.Dr Zak 15:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete neologism M1ss1ontomars2k4 15:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What's with that image? --M1ss1ontomars2k4 | T | C | @ 22:35, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Non-notable in-joke. jamiemcc 15:44, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per Dr Zak. It's an old joke that's verifiable. jgp 19:27, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
comment actually, it was first seen in the bastard operator from hell, archived here. --Bachrach44 20:57, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep per Zak although I'm not fully convinced this meets WP:N. JoshuaZ 21:04, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Naconkantari e|t||c|m 21:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, I guess.... 17500 ghits? You'd think that this could be expanded into something weird and wonderful, but most of the ghits seem to be links to fiftythree.org (where the idea apparently originated, and from which the image is lifted), which also has AUI Killer, BNC-Killer, VGA-Killer, Drive Killer, SCSI Killer, Ide Killer, Floppy Killer, RJ-11 Killer, Localtalk Killer, DB25 Killer, V.35 Killer, Bus Killer.... where will it all end? I'd rather see this merged with something.... but I couldn't say what.... TheMadBaron 06:21, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Merging wouldn't make too much sense if this doesn't merit its own entry since it is already mentioned on BOFH. JoshuaZ 16:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. As a (former) Novell CNE, I believe I would have heard of this if it were notable in 1995. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 23:31, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rewrite. This is a joke, but a popular and well-known one that originated in one of Simon Travaglia's original BOFH stories.[1] It was commonplace on alt.sysadmin.recovery in the mid-90s and the concept has passed into Unix and IP networking lore. Hardly what "made up in school one day" was intended to cover. Vashti 14:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done some rewriting on this. It's still something of a stub though - maybe merge to BOFH? Vashti 15:07, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NFT. Verifiability in question. Stifle (talk) 15:56, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP!!! Whats wrong whith it? the first page I officially make is getting deleted without even seeing light for a month! Besides, is it doing anyone-- or any servers harm is it? And it was not "made up in school one day"! And is this the best use of your time? Deleting a harmless artical. You should be agenst users like User:Kingstonjr and user:Hashbrowns who have porn on their userpages! Wikipedia is not for porn! It may be uncensored, but this?!?!--Finest1 01:11, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, because it's verifiable, it wasn't made up in school one day, and if you haven't heard about it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. But consider merging into BOFH, as I don't quite favor having an article for every single character/joke/element of every single story/book/movie/game around (though if you look around on WP, there are quite a few of those). LjL 14:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.