Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Micro$oft

Micro$oft

"Micro$oft" deserves scarcely a own article on Wikipedia. Possibly can the article be merged with Criticisms of Microsoft, but articles about satirical names can never be entirely NPOV. Delete. --Off! 08:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~~No vote~~, but two comments. (1) This is fairly well-documented Internet slang: see [1]. (2) Of course an article about satirical names can be entirely NPOV. It should be treated like any other article about someone's opinion or a controversy: describe it informatively, from a neutral point of view, without advancing one side or the other. It's all at WP:NPOV. If this article should be deleted, it should be for non-notability, not an unavoidable non-neutrality. –Sommers ^(Talk) 09:09, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a place for crusade, regardless if the concept is common or not. The article should be deleted (or merged). --Off! 09:18, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that a merge would probably be best (or deletion for notability reasons), but I don't see how this page constitutes "crusade". The article is pretty much in line with the NPOV policy already: it looks like a good-faith neutral description of a point of view that doesn't try to advance it. –Sommers ^(Talk) 09:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aprove - it may be common internet slang, but so are a lot of other stupid sayings. Do they all deserve entries in Wikipedia? Nope. I also agree with Off's comment that this will 'never' be NPOV Smitz 09:14, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I now vote redirect to Alternative political spelling, where I just found that "Micro$oft" is already listed and described. –Sommers ^(Talk) 09:55, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
~~Move to Wikitionary~~ In fact... it's already there! --Cymsdale 10:28, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Wikitionary This makes more sense --Cymsdale 10:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The term sees such common usage that I think it needs to stay. If we delete this, someone will come around and recreate it someday, almost assuredly with less NPOV. And if we delete this, should we also delete Microshaft, Internet Exploder, Internet Exploiter and other less common re-writings? Warrens 13:39, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's exactly the point, it's a term. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. I think that some of those other articles should also be moved to wiktionary as well. --Cymsdale 13:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]