Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (21st nomination)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was: consensus to title blacklist, no consensus to delete. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 18:07, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (21st nomination)

Trying to finally put a stop to this. DrowssapSMM 12:34, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as a salt evasion. This !vote is not an April Fools Joke - I genuinely think the page should be deleted. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 14:58, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly I'm extremely tempted to add ^Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth $[0-9]+(st|nd|rd|th) nomination$$ to the title blacklist to put and end to this. Breaking the convention with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (song) was actually mildly original. This just isn't, and is resorting to tactics more commonly thought of as associated with sockpuppets than with legitimate users, and thus I must do the same. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:03, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The only thing I see that's even mildly funny about this is the rotating !vote. But that can happen anywhere.
As it stands the current consensus seems to be to keep this one and add it to the title blacklist for the future. Perhaps we can make some sort of meta-joke about Earth having plot armour in the error message you see :P. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 21:52, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment You serious about this, as said, this is not any sort of a joke. Butplease do not add it to the blacklist as this is harmful. Toadette ^{(April Fools Day!)} 15:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hear that Butplease? —Alalch E. 16:46, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As there is no user named Butplease, Butplease cannot add the Earth nominations to the list. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(serious comment) Keep this one, since some people have contributed to it with funny votes, but I would support blacklisting any future ones for subsequent years. This should be the last time this joke is used. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:50, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As someone who made one of the previous joke nominations, I have to agree that we are running out of ideas for Earth joke nominations. But keep, because there's nothing inherently wrong with the page. I am in support of telling people that there are seven other planets in the solar system that could be blown up by the Death Star though. Mori Calliope fan talk 05:01, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I'm going to do a WP:BOLD and mark this as a serious nomination because people are treating it that way more than as a humorous nomination. Mori Calliope fan talk 05:03, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: Although I think this should be the last time this is done unless if someone is able to come up with something funny and not just stupid. Awesome Aasim 06:14, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Agreed that this should be the last time per originality's sake. As a compromise, @Pppery: should be able to add this to the blacklist. There are plenty of other planets and objects in the solar system real/fictional as pointed out above. Guys... give the Earth a rest for a bit, things are already chaotic down here as it is. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 13:13, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on this instance, but I think a section of Rules for Fools, or a separate page (or create a new one if none of them would fit) could be created listing jokes that are discouraged due to overuse, including joke deletions for Earth, the Main Page (which is actually salted), and possibly others. Xeroctic (talk) 14:09, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, it stopped being fun. Adding the above regular expression to the title blacklist will help. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ Delete [changed recommendation per the thread underneath]. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (69th nomination) and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (666th nomination) are going to be funny.—Alalch E. 00:16, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Will Wikipedia even still be around in the 2060s and 2600s? Will Wikipedians still be doing the same dumb jokes? I hope not. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe will be around. If around, jokes certainly still dumb. But dumb =/= unfunny. Some things are inherently funny, like "Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (69th nomination)" no matter how dumb. —Alalch E. 08:30, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It will only be funny if we actually manage to get 68 Earth AfDs before the 69th. I don't think the pain is worth going through. Mori Calliope fan talk 15:26, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You know, you've changed my mind, it isn't worth going through. —Alalch E. 22:21, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: at this point, it's a tradition, albeit a stupid and unfunny one. Cremastra (talk) 01:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earth (42nd nomination) is going to be the smart one. Give it time. —Alalch E. 17:09, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This argument doesn't make sense? If the tradition is stupid and unfunny, then why not stop it now? We aren't bound by the stupid traditions of the past, especially for something like April Fools Day. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:53, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I am not sure if this principle should also apply to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia, which has more than ten nominations. I couldn't think of another frequently-nominated subject similar to Wikipedia and Earth. AlphaBeta135 talk 01:28, 10 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Update Jimmy Wales (9 noms) and his pseudonym Jimbo Wales. AlphaBeta135 talk 18:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on deletion, Blacklist /^Wikipedia:Articles for deletion\/(Earth|Wikipedia)/ with regards to future April Fools nominations for the above arguments on this being stale. NasssaNser 13:34, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on deletion of the deletion page. Seems like a lost cause when we already have 20 nominations that got us to this point. _{Duly signed,} ⛵ WaltClipper -(talk) 13:32, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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