The result of the debate was keep. -- King of Hearts talk 16:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC) reply
First let me say that I'm not trying to criticize earlier editors of this page; trying to make an acceptable Wikipedia article out of such an ill-defined topic is difficult by the very nature of the subject. Of course, this is exactly why I am putting this article AfD. The history of the road to AfD of this article is: I prodded it about a week ago, Monicasdude unprodded it, in the meantime Crawford went half-way towards putting it up AfD, so now I'm going "whole hog".
All in all, I would say that if I were going to write a parody of an article which egregiously violated WP:V and WP:WEASEL, I don't know if I could do better than this. Nowhere does this article even make an assertion. Consider, e.g. "it is supposed", "the notion ... is undocumented", etc. What is this article saying, really? Some people [we don't know who or how many] have a belief in a conspiracy theory [which we've sort of vaguely defined], presumably enough people believe this to make it notable [we guess], and finally this is not surprising [since we all know people think this way]. And if you don't believe us, here's an article from The Onion. C'mon. Deville ( Talk) 14:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
-- JJay 18:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
The result of the debate was keep. -- King of Hearts talk 16:56, 9 April 2006 (UTC) reply
First let me say that I'm not trying to criticize earlier editors of this page; trying to make an acceptable Wikipedia article out of such an ill-defined topic is difficult by the very nature of the subject. Of course, this is exactly why I am putting this article AfD. The history of the road to AfD of this article is: I prodded it about a week ago, Monicasdude unprodded it, in the meantime Crawford went half-way towards putting it up AfD, so now I'm going "whole hog".
All in all, I would say that if I were going to write a parody of an article which egregiously violated WP:V and WP:WEASEL, I don't know if I could do better than this. Nowhere does this article even make an assertion. Consider, e.g. "it is supposed", "the notion ... is undocumented", etc. What is this article saying, really? Some people [we don't know who or how many] have a belief in a conspiracy theory [which we've sort of vaguely defined], presumably enough people believe this to make it notable [we guess], and finally this is not surprising [since we all know people think this way]. And if you don't believe us, here's an article from The Onion. C'mon. Deville ( Talk) 14:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply
-- JJay 18:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC) reply