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The result was delete. Uncontested. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:55, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Living Meme

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Prod removed without addressing any issues by an IP with no other edits, no edits or response by the article creator in three weeks, so taking it to AFD.

Fails WP:GNG, WP:NRVE, WP:NOT#DICT, WP:NOT#OR

Seems to be a content fork from Internet meme to define the creator's invented term "living meme". No sources found that actually use the term "living meme" in the sense of an internet meme that is currently in use. The term "living meme" does see limited use, but only in social media in the sense of people who are themselves "living memes", so this does not even seem appropriate for a redirect to Internet meme. I wasn't sure if this was an obvious enough an invention of the article creator for a speedy "Obviously invented". The article's sources consist of two dead dead links, one copied from Internet meme (the first source in the article, complete with the 2007 access date!) and a broken link to a recent article about 4chan. It appears the broken link should actually be http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/10/07/1461444815609313.abstract , but the abstract does not mention "living meme" and I'm not going to pay the hefty pay wall price to check further. Meters (talk) 01:47, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note that there are also sources which use the term "living meme" with still other meanings, such as "Living+Meme"&dq="Living+Meme"&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwpO-F_a_LAhUCLmMKHQ4kBF8Q6AEIKzAD this. Meters (talk) 01:56, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 02:07, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom, for great justice. --Gimubrc (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:17, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Seems to be a hoax or invented by the article creator. Natg 19 (talk) 01:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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