Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P-P-P-Powerbook (0th nomination)

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the pages entitled P-P-PowerBook and P-P-P-Powerbook.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to delete both articles.

Vanity. DO'Neil 08:29, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not only vanity, but the site with the "PDF file of all the misadventures" requires a password for access and hence is pointless (so I've removed it.) The link to the forums is misformatted, so I fixed that. The forum story is a long, rambling, typical tale of someone foolish who got ripped off in an eBay escrow scam. The Wikipedia article implies that the scammer got his comeuppance in some dramatic, amusing, or particularly appropriate way, but according to the forum thread this result has yet to be achieved. There are websites devoted to people who scam the scammers--there was a very funny one some months ago in which someone led a Nigerian scammer on for days with emails signed Harry Potter, insisting that the scammer needed to wait a couple of days so he could get his money out of Gringotts, etc. etc. There could be a decent Wikipedia article on this phenomenon, if there isn't already (haven't looked), but this isn't it, and P-P-P-Powerbook isn't the right title for it. Dpbsmith 13:33, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree with Dpbsmith. EddEdmondson 13:40, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The story did amuse me, but agree that it should just serve an example of fooling scammers in a wider-context article. (I note that the scammer actually did get his comeuppance, in that he did have to pay a hefty import fee for worthless goods... and that you don't actually have to be a member of the forum to download the PDF.) - MykReeve 14:57, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Not that I'm voting to keep, but it has been on fark, too. Rhymeless 16:25, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. RickK 20:38, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - just another ebay scam story. -- Cyrius|&#9998 21:40, May 16, 2004 (UTC)
Delete - ephemeral. -- The Anome 23:42, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This just made /. there's a mirror here [1] if anyones interested. --Starx 23:33, 16 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This has made /. and Fark, and was a major focus of Something Awful's forums for a while. Yes, it'll be forgotten in time, but the Franco-Prussian War is kind of forgotten by now too, and we haven't deleted that article yet, so we may as well keep this one around too. (Who knows when someone will need to do research on the history of odd internet cult favorite sites.) Snowspinner 00:04, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. People die in war. This is hardly as important. Ed Cormany 03:43, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, as per Dpbsmith --Tagishsimon 00:23, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, nonnotable. BTW I think we want to steer away from using Slashdot and the like as a test of notability. "It's notable because it was on Slashdot" is putting the cart before the horse, shall we say. Wile E. Heresiarch 02:41, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Interesting but ephemeral. Isomorphic 03:29, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
- A stubby duplicate article has been created at P-P-PowerBook. I have put a vfd notice on it, as well. It should, I suppose, be turned into a redirect if this article is kept, but it doesn't appear that that will be the case, so both should be deleted. Isomorphic 09:01, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Maximus Rex
Delete. Amusing japes on the internet are not what I would call "encyclopedic". --Stormie 09:16, May 17, 2004 (UTC)
Delete both, although I did enjoy reading the story, and the auction (won by a now suspended eBay user) is real enough, so although it reads a bit like an urban myth it looks genuine to me. Andrewa 20:48, 17 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
P-P-P-Delete. Beelze bubs 00:48, 19 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
Would make an intresting note on a scamming or counterscamming entry. I personally think this is the funniest example of how effective counterscamming can be when you have a worldwide group to assist you. The totality of 'intel' retrieved about the location, 'scammer', etc is rather impressive. Again, an excellent example that should be moved to a subheading of scamming or counterscamming, not outright deleted.
- Parent was an IP. Also, delete. Vanity and utter nonsense. Cymydog Naakka 12:40, 20 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

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