Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Programmer's day

Programmer's day

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Programmer's Day was nominated for deletion on 2004-09-12. The result of the discussion was "delete". For the prior discussion, see 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)[reply]

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)[reply]
Delete per nominator. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:20, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom Nigel ^(Talk) 09:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
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? Yomangani ^talk 11:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Programmer's are by definition the sort of people who spend a lot of time on computers. It makes no sense for a wide-spread programmer specific holiday to lack reliable Google presence. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

However, no verifiable evidence has been produced that this is widespread. Fan-1967 14:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Real programmers don't take holidays. Sjc 12:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure what kind of references would be satisfying but the holiday was mentioned in PC World Komputer - a Polish edition of a PC World magazine (read by about half a million people) which sort of proves that the concept was not made up recently by a random guy who only wanted to edit Wikipedia.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.96.228.130 (talk)

Yeah, but it's not about whether the idea exists. Neither that link nor the one that's been added acknowledge it as anything more than a semi-joke proposed holiday. Semi-joke proposed holidays that barely exist don't belong in Wikipedia. --Dtcdthingy 14:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DON't Delete Knowing of this day made me really proud. Perhaps i would pick another day, so we could also celebrate on someone. Please keep these article so we can spread it. Thanks. This template must be substituted.
Delete Non-notable, unverifiable. Looks a lot more like something made up in school than anything ever taken seriously by professional programmers. Fan-1967 14:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP Moscow Times has a 2002 article, which gives the subject some credibility. Larisa Naumenko. "Programmers Want Their Own Holiday", The Moscow Times, 2002-10-23, pp. 9. -- I fail to see the value in speedy deletion of this, as the only purpose that serves is taking away people's opportunities to actually do the research and find references. It should also be noted that content veryfing the existence of the holiday has been deleted from the article, see the 17:48, 13 September 2006 edit— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.236.208.22 (talk)
DON't Delete Redefine this article as a reference to a proposal instead of a real holiday so this way it can be spread. The idea does exist so it must be documented as what it is, an idea.Thanks— Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.92.4.151 (talk)
Don't Delete! The idea of this article is good. There must be a reference for programmers holiday on WiKi!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.170.72.226 (talk)