Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Navy Seal copypasta

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The result was redirect to Copypasta#Navy Seal. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:20, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Navy Seal copypasta

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Notability of this meme is questionable. Only significant coverage is sources like Know Your Meme that try to document every meme that comes along, and even the fact that it was included in the manifesto of the perpetrator of a recent mass shooting has only earned it passing mentions in reliable sources. I would support a redirect to Copypasta#Navy Seal. Ahecht (TALK
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Delete Lots of coverage in RS around this meme given recent events. After looking at a couple dozen reliable sources I found nothing deeper than a one sentence mention. This complete lack of signficant coverage suggests a lack of notability. Know your meme is frequently WP:UGC, though it looks like this entry was updated by the managing editor. Further concerns about the explicit naming and shaming of a now 16 year-old. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:18, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:49, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom - GretLomborg (talk) 16:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete What did you say to me, you little... (KYM is probably the better repository for the history of dank may-mays.) Bkissin (talk) 17:48, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: No reliable sources other than the Rolling Stone article, but even that only mentions the meme without any additional information. This kind of content is more suitable for KnowYourMeme. Laurent (talk) 19:13, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:16, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Lots of mentions in RSs + some sources that go more into depth about origin and usage: [1] [2]. I don't see the problem here. But if that's not enough, then Merge into Copypasta. Ahiijny (talk) 15:36, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Ahiijny (talk) 15:47, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to copypasta per Ahiijny. This isn't the first time it's been in the news, so it's not only covered in relation to recent events. There are barely enough sources to meet notability (recent ones seem to be mostly short mentions) but on balance it indicates that the content should be included somewhere, just maybe not in its own article. ansh 666 18:06, 20 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect per nom. Regards, Ariconte (talk) 02:00, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to copypasta, also per Ahiijny. There are quite a few articles on notable memes, and it has been around and rather popular for years, though probably not popular enough for its own article. Nuew (talk) 05:36, 21 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Obviously unencyclopedic Nick-D (talk) 09:03, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Many mentions in WP:RS: [3] [4] 79.168.3.237 (talk) 22:14, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as nonsense. At worst redirect to copypasta where there is a section on this, where the "main" link to this article would also need to be removed. It is sufficient that WP should have a link to such rubbish: it should not allow itself to become part of the problem! Peterkingiron (talk) 17:26, 24 March 2019 (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.