Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Programmer's day
Imaginary/joke holiday. Ridiculously few Google hits given its subject area, and no sources cited. Dtcdthingy 08:00, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Why not make it an actual Holiday, and give credit to Wikipedia for initiating this Holiday. BTW, I am really not joking — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mdeyab (talk • contribs)
- Because Wikipedia is not the place to promote new ideas. We're an encyclopedia and we only write on things that already exist. - Mgm|(talk) 09:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nominator. - Mgm|(talk) 09:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom Nigel (Talk) 09:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Friends of mine do observe this 'holiday' in one way or the other, me too (yes, I am a coder). This is no new idea, it's been around for a while. Or do you think "what I can't find with google does not exist"? BTW: I know it longer than the wikipedia - only i don't know who told me about in the first place. Tim
- Please cite sources to prove your assertion that this idea is not new. The onus is on you to demonstrate that this article is verifiable, not on other editors to defend their good faith attempts to find sources for an article that doesn't have any. Uncle G 11:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - Unfortunately, unless the person who told you is a reliable source then the no original research policy means that the article should be deleted. Google is not the only means of finding reliable sources, but in this case it should provide a fairly good guideline. If the holiday was celebrated by a recently discovered tribe with no written language then maybe we expect to find a lack of references on the web, but that's not the case with a coders' holiday. I assume the correct title should be "Programmers' Day" anyway, or is it for a specific but nameless programmer? Yomanganitalk 11:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)