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 of the debate was keep (even after discarding IP addresses etc). – Jitse Niesen (talk) 04:03, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Game (game)[edit]

This was nominated in 2004 and kept (not without controversy). My Google skills are not the best in the world, but I've just spent ten minutes trying to find any references to this game outside WP and minor blogs, without success. It looks to me as if it's either a very minor cult, or a nihilartikel (it is heavily self-referential). I'm happy to be persuaded otherwise, but if this is a meme, it seems to me to be a minor one, and largely founded on this article. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 19:12, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - deeply irritating and non-notable pseudo-meme Bwithh 20:29, 27 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - have you had a look at the articles discussion page which gives numerious references including links to some sites which existed a couple of years before the article was created. as for something to google; [1] --MilkMiruku 00:07, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I think I've heard of this. Andre (talk) 03:29, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I've definately heard of this... long before I saw the google page. And I'm not big on the whole internet-meme scene, either. It's very popular where I am. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.12.4 (talk • contribs) First edit
• Comment: A game that is not a game played by people who can only play it when they are not playing it? - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 11:12, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I really like this game195.188.173.96 11:25, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I found out about the game ages before I heard about this page, its only after a couple of years of anguish (from a large number of my friends), that someone actually bothered to Google The Game and found this page and told us about it on our website. Hence the page may have created the cult (I don't know how old it is), though The Game is now self-perputuating and the will continue to exist regardless. Though perhaps it should be taken down purely to save others from it's unforgiving grasp. 195.173.15.12 13:31, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Weak delete. Everyone keeps talking about how they can't stop playing this annoying game. Me, this Wikipedia article was the first place I heard about it. Is it an Anglosaxon-only thing? — JIP | Talk 13:34, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. 684 students play it at Cambridge University alone, and that's according to facebook society figures when only about half the university are members of facebook. I certainly heard of it a long time before I saw this article 131.111.8.96 13:38, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I heard about this game in real life. The argument that it only exists on Wikipedia is bogus. Birkett 14:57, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I never said it only existed on Wikipedia. I said I had never heard of it before. Who am I, the supreme authority of deciding what exists and what doesn't? There's an unbelieveable number of places in Finland that you haven't heard about, for example. Does this automatically mean they don't exist? — JIP | Talk 19:21, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. There seems to be quite a lot of people who plays this game in our university in France and almost nobody knows this Wikipedia entry. --82.235.37.168 16:19, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep.Even though we are all losing the game in talking about it. If it must be deleted can it go to uncyclopedia or is it too sensible for them. I feel it belongs somewhere in the wiki family.Signed in 18:15, 28 November 2005 (UTC) User's third edit[reply]
• Keep even though I'm irritated about having lost. Again. At least a dozen people I know offhand in the midwest United States know of this game independent of my knowledge of it; this is of course ancedotal, but the game is viral in nature. --Stephen Deken 18:20, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I lost it a few minutes ago, so being here didn't make me lose it. The Game exists everywhere, including Oregon. No way this isn't notable. Ingoolemo ^talk 18:50, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• STRONG Keep. It seems that this is in a lot of AIM profiles, facebook, and otherwise. To the author of the deletion notice, did you ever consider that some od the details of "The Games" origins were a joke? I don;t see any valid reason for deletion --Brianopp 18:56, 28 November 2005 (UTC) (User's first edit)[reply]
• Keep. I love the game, even even though it is a source of eternal torment. Anyway ths site is supposed to be a comprehensive online encyclopedia and if you delete a widely known phenomenon as this is then the site will not be comprehensive. Oh and it is heard of outside of WP, for example; http://www.losethegame.com 152.78.254.128 19:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.197.248.8 (talk • contribs)
• Is this up for deletion again? Yawn. Keep, as long as berks can stop sabotaging it with crappy rules about half-hour grace periods and competitive strategies. It's a laugh; enjoy it. Kinitawowi 22:04, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Are you confirming that it is a joke article? - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] (W) AfD? 23:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• No, I'm stating that it has been through AfD before, it was deemed notable enough to keep then, and but for the actions of a few idiots it remains so. I base my judgements in AfD on deciding whether a topic is worth keeping, not necessarily the content. The Game is real. I'm not an avid player, but I'm smart enough to know that memes (which The Game is, essentially) propogate very rapidly through blogs. Of course it's going to turn up in lots of non-notable blogs; that doesn't make it non-notable of itself. Kinitawowi 23:40, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep

This game is utterly brilliant, keeping us college and uni students occupied, frustrated and in despair for many an hour. Admittedly, the whole rule and grace period issue is a bit weak, bu tthe game is absolutely brilliant and deserves recognition. KEEP!!! (lost the game) 141.163.84.17 02:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep

I view it as being as pertinant as any other game I've played, and I've been playing it for a year and a half. Bkkbrad 03:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep, it's notable and widespread. And much like Color or Country, this article can be informative in an unusual way: if you knew of the game, you now know that it's not just something stupid your friends came up with. It's something stupid that startling numbers of people know about. rspeer 06:08, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. It appears inherent that you wouldn't find any mention of it in Google, if the whole point of it is forgetting about it. Jude_tlk 07:45, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I personally find the entire idea of a game whose entire idea is to forget about it utterly stupid. I won't waste my time trying to "play" this "game". Nevertheless, I acknowledge it's a real meme, and am not further advocating the deletion of this article. — JIP | Talk 11:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. -- Dalbury^(Talk) 12:33, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The Game will continue and spread regardless of whether this page exists. I played it for years before I found any reference to it on the internet and as far as I'm concerned it definitely deserves some recognition. 222.153.81.183 00:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC) (First edit)[reply]
• Keep per Stephen Deken. Stifle 15:58, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep This is a very cool game and has been around for a while. taladraco 14:31, 30 November 2005 (UTC) This is this user's first edit.[reply]
• Delete Burn this with fire. Sock infected, unverfable --Jaranda(^{watz sup}) 03:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oh dear. Please enlighten me: who are the socks? What evidence do you have? "Sock puppet" does not mean "new user", and to equate them is hostile toward newbies. rspeer 16:40, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I've heard of it before. The Wikipedia article is useful for explaining to people who haven't heard of it before. --JD 04:49, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Notable. Heard of it before reading this article. Hagbard Celine 12:42, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - This is an amazing game that is very famous. I know at least 60 people that play the game. This wikipedia article is amazing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.182.47 (talk • contribs)
• Delete. The excessive meatpuppetry astounds me. Peyna 01:52, 3 December 2005 (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.