Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense/ASCII cows

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. -- BD2412 ^talk 06:04, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense/ASCII cows

This article was originally nominated by SuperDude115, but I only just noticed it was never linked from the main VfD page. I am adding it, though several votes have already been made. the wub "?/!" 5 July 2005 15:12 (UTC)

Wikipedia opposes to comedic nonsense! This article has been the first article to be transwikied to Wikicomedy. For the foreseeable future, BJAODN articles should transwikied to Wikicomedy! http://comedy.wikicities.com/wiki/ASCII_cows is the new link for ASCII cows now. Any page that links to it on Wikipedia should undergo a facelift by changing those links to external links for Wikicomedy's version.

• Delete and transwiki other BJAODN articles to Wikicomedy. --SuperDude 00:33, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep, and see Wikipedia_talk:Bad_Jokes_and_Other_Deleted_Nonsense, there is no consensus that BJAODN articles should be transwikied. the wub (talk) 12:52, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - there's no reason why both pages can't exist, especially as Wikicities is not an official sister project of Wikipedia. sjorford →•← 15:14, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Even if Wikicities is an unofficial sister project of Wikipedia; it is still a good place to transwiki BJAODN to! Why would anybody want to keep BJAODN on Wikipedia when Wikicomedy is a more appropriate place for it? --SuperDude 20:52, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • I just can't see any reason to delete from Wikipedia. So long as Wikicomedy complies with the GFDL there is no reason why you can't copy the content there. As for why we'd want to keep it on Wikipedia, this is where it originated, and a lot of the jokes are set in a Wikipedia context. the wub (talk) 21:28, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -SuperDude, sorry inspite that you were the one who invited me here. There's no harm keeping both, is there?--Jondel 04:53, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • No problem, but according to the Talk page for BJAODN, some guy claimed that there has been anti-humor discussions for Wikipedia hence the reason for the transwiki of ASCII cows and some other material. --SuperDude 05:13, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• KEEP. THERE IS NO REASON WHY WE SHOULD NOT KEEP A COPY. a lot of the jokes are in an encyplopedic contest.—Xyzxyz
• Keep. → JarlaxleArtemis 01:04, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
  • If it's deleted, it's no big deal, as I have a copy of the page here and here. → JarlaxleArtemis 01:12, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge with Cattle I admit this page is a joke, but it is AWESOME! Cows are funny. Personally, I'd rather it be included in the article cattle. I'm considering pasting it all into my user page. I want to know who made it--whoever wrote it spent a lot of time on it. The best part is a scene of a bull humping a cow, but the stuff does get boring after a while. Despite details, it's too long. Still it should go in cattle. Why? Why not! Muijzo 01:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep all good BJAODN pages. We have (as of now) 26 pages of BJAODN, some of which contain real gems and others of which aren't funny at all. This is one of the funniest pages in BJAODN and should most certainly be kept. --Idont Havaname 23:38, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Hey U, Wikipedia is not a soapbox meaning that humor is not part of article criteria. Wikicomedy is the appropriate place for it. --SuperDude 19:04, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • How am I using WP as a soapbox? Your statement "For the foreseeable future, BJAODN articles should transwikied to Wikicomedy!" seems to be a move at changing VfD policy, and therefore could be included in using WP as a soapbox. VfD listings themselves are not the place to change VfD policy; that's why we have the Policy Consensus section. But I doubt you'd have much luck with this move to take BJAODN off of the site; it's one of the more well-liked corners of Wikipedia. It is also worth noting that Wikicities is not part of the Wikimedia Foundation, and therefore we cannot transwiki to it, per the information listed on the main VfD page. --Idont Havaname 23:58, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep!. Wikipedia needs ASCII cows. It's not a debatable point, it's an unquestionable fact! --TexasDex June 28, 2005 18:38 (UTC)
• Keep all BJAODN pages. (Unsigned comment by )
• Extra-Strong Keep - such brilliance should be KEPT HERE. We can't have too much brilliance. --Mothperson 5 July 2005 17:42 (UTC)
• Keep A little light entertainment never hurt (or herd?). We should certainly recognise the effort that went into "The herd shot round the world", at least until their professional help arrives. DJ Clayworth 5 July 2005 18:20 (UTC)
• Keep until we have a sister project for jokes and things. ~~~~ 5 July 2005 18:47 (UTC)
• Contains a Polish joke (I think), Merge with Anti-Polonism. --Moritz 5 July 2005 19:59 (UTC)
• Insert cow-related keep comment here. How about this - no official sister project to which we can mooooove this. -- BD2412 ^talk July 5, 2005 22:34 (UTC)
• Keep. Nomination is bull. -EDM 6 July 2005 01:27 (UTC)
• We do have a sister project for jokes - Wikibooks:Jokebook. Transwiki? Rossami (talk) 6 July 2005 02:28 (UTC)
• Keep udderly essential. JamesBurns 6 July 2005 06:39 (UTC)
• Delete If the article is duplicated on an appropriate site (WikiComedy) there is no reason to have it here. Edwinx2 6 July 2005 07:31 (UTC)
• Keep Just because WikiComedy has recognized the humor of this page is no reason deprive us Wikipedians who never even heard of WikiComedy. (Well, now I have heard of it, but you know what I mean.) betsythedevine 6 July 2005 09:35 (UTC)
• Keep and hook the nipples of any humorless prig who says otherwise up to a milking machine. Haikupoet 7 July 2005 00:35 (UTC)
• Keepon moooooooooooooooooooooving.
• Keep This page is an extreme example of what happens when people really have no life at all. and it adds humour to Wikipedia too - I spent a good deal of time laughing hard at the page. A.K.R. 10:39, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

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.