Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Programmer's Day
There is no evidence or source provided for the existance of this holiday. I've been involved in the realm of technology nearly my entire life and never have heard of this. --Lysol 19:42, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
- I have read about it somewhere, but was it this Wikipedia article or some other place? Googling for "Programmer's Day" -Wikipedia 256 returns 17 hits, including a few weblogs and an electronic version of a Latvian IT magazine [1]. So, it's not a fabrication but might be quite obscure. Delete because of obscurity. Andris 19:56, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Can't find any solid evidence (most pages use Wikipedia as their source) except for a few weblogs. Googled for "Programmer's Day" -Wikipedia -Encyclopedia September: found an article suggesting that a Russian petition was set up to make this an official holiday, once. In any case, some friends and I celebrated it and will continue to do so in future - is that enough? =o)
- It is real, but it is part of the "Hacker Culture", not mainstream. I think that is a fine thing though. I would like to see more Hacker Culture become mainstream.
- Let's keep it. David Battle
- So this holiday exists, and the fact that it's obscure isn't a good argument to delete it, in my opinion. My vote is Keep. --positron 23:11, 2004 Sep 12 (UTC)
- Keep. I celebrate this with my friends/neighbours/coworkers, its a lot of fun. obscurity should be no reason for deletion. Applegoddess 01:18, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: Obscurity is, in fact, a perfect reason to delete it. Encyclopedic content is of notable items. If no one knows about this but the blogosphere, then it's not appropriate for Wikipedia. By all means, though, the folks at Everything2 will want to know about it. There are many places on the Internet to write about it. An online encyclopedia is not. Geogre 02:40, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)