Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of internet stock characters

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The result was delete. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 00:13, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of internet stock characters[edit]

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Combination of memes/jargon based on particular kinds of people on the Internet framed as "stock characters" (a term which literally none of the sources use). Fails WP:GNG/WP:SALAT/WP:INDISCRIMINATE. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:05, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 00:05, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Dream Focus 23:49, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP rename it List of Internet Slang, that just a redirect that was never an article. Many of these things have articles such as Karen (pejorative), etc. Dream Focus 00:20, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete This is an indiscriminate list of terms that badly fails WP:LISTN. Even the title/purpose of the list is dubious. Most of the items are not "stock characters" by any normal definition, and "internet" seems to be just where the list's author first heard the term. The individual line items are real definitions of slang terms and those definitions are sourced, but the sources don't establish the notability, or even the existence, of the category. ApLundell (talk) 00:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete: Fails WP:LISTN and meets WP:WWIN / WP:INDISCRIMINATE / WP:ENCYCLOPEDIC CONTENT // Timothy :: talk 02:13, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as (entirely, inevitably) WP:OR. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 02:21, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy delete Indiscriminate collection of unrelated terms, no indication what all of these have to do with the internet, no indication what makes these "stock characters." The LGBT terms on this list have been around longer than the internet, and it would be completely inappropriate to just rename as DF suggests. The other more recently invented terms, while popularized on the internet, are not exclusive to it and remain unrelated. Karen is linked from Archetypal name, perhaps that could take a couple others but this list is just bad. Reywas92^Talk 02:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I don't know what distinguishes an "internet" term from a mass media term or schoolyard term, in 2020. This is inherently WP:INDISCRIMINATE and represents original research of a few editors sourced to cherry-picked sources, rather than any reliable verifiable phenomenon. Shooterwalker (talk) 14:38, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Internet slang: Per WP:INDISCRIMINATE. ASTIG😎 _{(ICE T • ICE CUBE)} 16:00, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - While the individual entries are sourced, there are none that talk about this grouping as a whole, which is a failure of WP:LISTN, and none that describe them in the context of "Internet Stock Characters". Additionally, as pointed out, a number of these are terms/slangs that existed well before the internet. Overall, this is just a WP:SYNTHy mess. Rorshacma (talk) 16:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Mostly per the others. About half of these don’t even have to do with internet terms. Foxnpichu (talk) 23:36, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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