Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toilet tipping

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The result was DELETE. Away goes trouble, down the drain. Herostratus 01:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Toilet tipping

Yet another unsourced article on a prank. One very short sentenc in a local news roundup, a student-edited page praising the things made up in school that day, and a lot of cruft. Fewer than 700 Google hits, quite likely this is primarily a vehicle for the "look at the real cool dudes" photo in the article. Guy (Help!) 17:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete unless sourced articles can be found on toilet tipping as a phenomena (not just as examples of toilets being tipped) - Tiswas^(t/c) 17:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Google search for "Toilet tipping" -wikipedia got 147 entries, and some of those were about not this topic but giving a money tip to a toilet attendant. Anthony Appleyard 17:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. I found this article quite amusing, but I doubt it's the sort of thing that can be adequately and reliably sourced. Maybe if you searched for the phenomenon under a name under than "toilet tipping"... if anyone can provide more reliable sources, I'll say keep. Oh yeah, and the popular culture section is entirely original research. -h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 17:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete utter nonsense. What else can be said. -- Ekjon Lok 18:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
BJAODN I still feel a twinge of WP:ILIKEIT from my early days, when I pleaded for everyone to keep the P-P-P-Powerbook! article. Regretfully, I concede that the article fails to meet the inclusion criteria. YechielMan 18:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going with keep on this. It's not nonsense - for starters, we have a non-fiction book which tells a story about guarding against this type of activity in the 1940s. Thus, we're talking about an activity which spans over two generations. The external links in the article also demonstrate that it continues to get attention, even though that's a pretty poor popular culture section as far as those things go. So, to recap - it's easily sourced, not made up in school one day, and can be cleaned up to be more than permissable. No reason to delete. --badlydrawnjeff talk 19:01, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff! Keep? How unlike you :o) Please feel free to rewrite it into something more like an encyclopaedia article and less like it was tipped out of a toilet one day... Guy (Help!) 19:42, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom Baristarim 04:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete mere existence of the activity doesn't make it worth encyclopedic entry. Not a dog 15:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
delete but I think jeff has found a lead for "outhouse tipping". I am not sure what they called it in the 19th c. which was probably its peak, but there might be enough additional for an article under that name, assuming Jeff wants to write it.DGG 19:18, 19 April 2007 (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.