Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Loituma Girl

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 nomination was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:29, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Loituma Girl

Finishing abandoned nomination. No opinion for now. ~ trialsanderrors 19:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Adding: This is also known as the Leek-spin girl, and seems to have been branched off Ievan Polkka ~ trialsanderrors 19:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep This animation is how a lot of people learned about this song. The song is clearly art and this clip has lead to a discovery of art by many. To erase it would be irriesponcible.
• Delete It is a 4 frame animation. Somehow I'm finding it hard to think of that as notable. Alphachimp ^talk 19:36, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to Ievan Polkka. Four different articles on 26 seconds of flash animation seems a bit much. ~ trialsanderrors 19:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into Ievan Polkka. A search for loituma girl in quotes returns 15,000 Google hits. - Che Nuevara: ^{Join the Revolution} 19:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect per Che. — Reinyday, 21:49, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep it was already split from the Ievan Polkka page because it was growing larger than the article on the song. This google search (searching for the name of the file as it is usually posted - loituma*.swf) gets 13000 results. Approximately 13000 instances of the files hosting. That indicates its a fairly big meme.Viridae^Talk 23:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment loituma__.swf has 46,400 google hits. This is the format I found it in, from a random part of the internet that spurred me to come here. --Kinst 02:02, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment that the filename it is usually posted with. I added the * thinking it would widen the search - obviously not. Viridae^Talk 02:13, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as patently unencyclopedic. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 23:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Can you tell me why it is any more unencyclopedic than many of these: List of Internet phenomena? Viridae^Talk 01:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Viridae; A reasonably popular meme that I've heard of (and I'm not cool enough to hear of most of them). OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 02:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and redirect to Ievan Polkka. This flash animation, by itself, is little more than an oddity; while many may speculate that it introduced the West to the Ievan Polkka, by itself it's little more that a partially nonverifiable article about a non-notable flash animation. Sethimothy 06:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge to Ievan Polkka, possibly trimming it a bit in latter case. Reasonably widespread and inspiring animation to keep in some form! --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 08:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep because it is a fact that it is a famous internet phenomenon by now, and therefore worth an entry. Also, there is absolutely no ground for using the number of frames in an animation as an indication of the value of it. Pwbogaart 08:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep I came looking for information on it, I found it, am now enlightened. If it's spread enough to get to my corner of the internet, I'd say it's worth noting. SirAPKered 10:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep This flash animation has brought an otherwise obscure Finnish band into something resembling worldwide recognition, even if only among the followers of the meme. The article could use editing, but given the lack of information about the animation on its own page, this wikipedia article has undoutedly helped many people figure out exactly what the animation is. Overand 17:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect to Ievan Polkka; a flash animation is not encyclopedic and article fails to establish it as so, per WP:MEME hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 19:23, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment WP:MEME isn't accepted policy. Internet pop culture is inherantly hard to verify by that doesn't reduce the notability. Viridae^Talk 19:58, 12 July 2006 (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.