Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against Jimbo's beard

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete with a copy to BJAODN.

In evaluating this discussion, I merged the three related discussions. Given the topic, it seems to me that an inconsistent result would be the worst possible choice.

• Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians who frankly don't care about Jimbo's beard
• Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for Jimbo's beard
• Wikipedia:Non-main namespace pages for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians against Jimbo's beard

By strict vote-counting, I get the following:

The last line represents the opinions if you took all three discussions and merged them, then eliminated duplication. The fractions come from 2 people who voted differently in the different discussions.

I should also note that 5 of the "keep" voters did so with comments that make it very difficult to tell if they were being serious. Their stated reasons appear to have no connection to the discussion. My hypothesis is that the discussion is about a joke and they consider surreal comments to be humorous and therefore appropriate. Not every culture shares that view, however. I was within a hair's-breadth of putting those comments in the "could not call" column.

Noting that a synopsis is already in the BJAODN archive, I am going to take the last step to delete the pages and the related redirects. Rossami (talk) 02:52, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Funny but lame. Move to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. BJAODN Andrew pmk | Talk 00:02, 28 August 2005 (UTC) Move to BJAODN and delete redirect. Andrew pmk | Talk 01:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• As above BJAODN Cdyson37 00:15, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to BJAODN. This misdirection will confuse our opponents, allow project members to work in greater secrecy, and provide plausible deniability. ‣ᓛᖁᑐ 00:47, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please do not merely vote BJAODN. There is at least one administrator who interprets such votes as keeps. Please be clear whether you mean to keep and copy to BJAODN or delete and copy to BJAODN. -Splash 01:06, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Could someone please explain to me what the D stands for, then? Grutness...wha? 08:46, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • The confusion has already begun! ‣ᓛᖁᑐ 01:32, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Weee! What harm does this do to wikipedia, really... --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 15:59, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• First, merge all "Beard" VFD's together. Second, keep (and BJAODN) all of them. I'd like to see where this ends up if it's allowed to go on. --Titoxd 01:13, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Temporarily, that is... --Titoxd 01:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. non-encyclopedic. Elfguy 01:15, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• BJAODN. Delete the redirect, is of course implicit, see Wikipedia:Guide_to_Votes_for_deletion#Votes_to_delete. --Mysidia (talk) 01:21, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• BJAODN. *drew 02:27, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• BJAODN works for me, and yes I mean with the redirect deleted. FreplySpang (talk) 03:52, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Was never more than mildly amusing. --Tony Sidaway^Talk 08:01, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• BJAODN, nice parody of the censorship/countercensorship Wikiproject debacle. Radiant_>|< 08:55, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
• BJAODN. The D stands for delete! Proto t c 10:21, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for Jimbo's beard and rename Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians maintaing NPOV on Jimbo's beard --Doc (?) 13:17, 28 August 2005 (UTC) That was a joke, delete of course (neutral on the BJAODN) --Doc (?) 16:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per Doc G. Sdedeo 19:18, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep but Merge all the Beard projects into one and put into category:Wikipedia:Humour. Thryduulf 10:20, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all Jimbo-beard-cruft. --Scimitar ^parley 16:14, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Are you suggesting that Jimbo has cruft in his beard? He might not like that... ;) Splash 17:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. -- user:zanimum
• Speedy keep, Leviticus 19:27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 20:08, 2005 August 29 (UTC)
• KEEP where it is, BJAODN (OBVIOUSLY). Also read why this wikiproject came about in talk. Wikiprojects, no matter how silly they are should NOT be VfDed. --Cool Cat ^{My Talk} 15:16, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - since when is humor not permitted? — Dan | Talk 23:31, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I'm violent opposed to Jimbo's beard. I'd support a move to commons though. --fvw* 00:17, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete all joke wikiprojects. (In this case, I also mean delete all the related pages including Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians who frankly don't care about Jimbo's beard, Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedians for Jimbo's beard and all the associated redirects.) As someone on one of the Talk pages said, this was a good joke that served a short-term purpose to defuse a very tense and emotional dispute. The crisis has passed and now this is starting to have negative consequences. People who don't appear to understand that it was a joke are using it as a "precedent" for decision-modeling. Time to let it die. Rossami (talk) 13:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Jimbo's got a bit of a weak chin, he needs the beard. The Hokkaido Crow 13:36, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge, BJAODN, and definitely delete redirect -- I endorse Rossami's general summary, but prefer a slightly different remedy. — Xiong熊talk* 20:26, 2005 September 2 (UTC)
• Keep per Lulu. ~ Syrae Faileas - «Talk» 21:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per Lulu Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 07:18, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep all beard projects. They show Wikipedia isn't as boring as you'd think. :) - ulayiti (talk) (my RfA) 13:32, 3 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Its run its course. -- DS1953 03:37, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Shave --Arm 17:46, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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