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 was Speedy keep, AFD started by banned user. Someone else can start another AFD if they wish. NawlinWiki (talk) 21:09, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Celebrity death hoax[edit]

Tautological, dictionary definition, stub. Not really an encyclopedia article as such. Bored of the world (talk) 17:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Close AFD. Please read the talk page. There is an RFC in progress specifically about the policy for this page. That is why there was a comment on the main article saying "See the talk page for an explanation of why this page exists." Please close this AFD immediately and let the RFC take its course. Manning (talk) 17:37, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A3 A celebrity death hoax is a hoax about the death of a celebrity. Wow, I didn't know that! Thanks for telling me absolutely nothing. Put a little effort into it next time. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • ^{(Many otters • One bat • One hammer)} 17:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note - Please do not vote on this AFD until you have read the RFC at Talk:Celebrity death hoax

Delete - this is a premature article, created purely to raise the question of whether it should exist. I say no - not in this state, at any rate. But I doubt that there's enough to say about the subject to justify keeping the article so it can be improved - what would a comprehensive, encyclopaedic article on 'Celebrity death hoaxes' look like? If, as I expect, it would just be a list of 'notable celebrity death hoaxes', it's probably not worth having at all.
I can see, however, that there might be a case for having a page in Wikipedia-space about whether and how celebrity death hoaxes should be covered by Wikipedia. That seems to be what this page was basically intended to be; perhaps the best solution is to create WP:DEATHHOAX and move the content on the talk page there. Robofish (talk) 17:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Pseudocide - isn't this the same thing? Badagnani (talk) 18:02, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I was going to suggest transwiki to wiktionary, but at best, what else can be said other than "a celebrity death hoax is a hoax about a celebrities death"? Would examples be helpful? I doubt it; see the above cited Pseudocide article for an example of a trivia train-wreck. Yngvarr (t) (c) 18:08, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Possible Keep The topic certainly exists. If sources could be found which discuss the general history of celebrity death hoaxes, not just individual cases, then there should be an article on the subject. I would think that somebody, somewhere has done so. Borock (talk) 18:48, 1 July 2009 (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.