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Contents 1 Pages 1.1 Association of Stroopwafel Addicts 2 Templates 3 Categories 4 Images 5 Requests for undeletion

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[edit] Association of Stroopwafel Addicts

What does this have to do with Wikimedia? Majorly talk 22:57, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

• Delete; clearly constitutes socialisation beyond scope. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 05:36, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
  • To expound: I understand the argument that pages like this help to built Meta's community atmosphere, but we do need to draw the line somewhere. When we come to a page that could just as easily be a group on Facebook, we need to review whether we've taken things too far. Humour and community pages are fine, but they should be at least indirectly germane to Wikimedia. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 13:11, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
• Delete; beyond our scope; has nothing to do with WMF. Pmlineditor ∞ 08:34, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
• Comment: I thought it was just a joke association, like many others (would all these be deleted too? There seems to be more non-serious ones). -- Mentifisto 11:11, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
  • No: most, if not all, mention Wikipedia or wiki in the title. They could possibly be discussed separately, but they are not the same calibre as this page. Majorly talk 13:25, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
• Delete as beyond the project scope and as such a distraction from work that is. I've seen it argued that humorous pages like this can help build community relations but I see little real basis to that suggestion. That's not to say that all humour should be outlawed, rather a line has to be drawn somewhere and I think this, and some of the other similar examples highlighted by Mentifisto go beyond where I feel this line should be. I don't think, as Majorly seems to have suggested, that incorporating "Wiki" in someway in a page's title necessarily does anything to make a page more relevant and useful. From a purely practical point of view, the more pages we have the harder it is, for example, to monitor for vandalism and ensuring pages are appropriately categorised, so such pages do distract from more useful content within the project scope. Adambro 13:34, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
• Coment: If Jimbo participate on this, why not? I don't see any problem, but, I agree with all above, is beyond our scope. Alex Pereira ^falaê 13:49, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep: It involves Wikimedians. That's what has to do with Wikimedia. It's a community thing. What more do you really want? It's Meta... --MZMcBride 14:24, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

• Breathing involves Wikimedians. So do many other things, but we're not going to be creating such pages here. Majorly talk 14:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

• Keep: Eating Stroopwafels at Wikimedia meetings is a popular in-joke and this page makes sense in that context, just as much as anything else in Category:Humor. Angela 07:06, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
• Weak Keep: this one of of many user associations and, of course, some are silly and useless. If this is to a how we set the bar for these sort of articles the argument to delete needs to be more specific. Are user associations based on food now outlawed? --MarsRover 08:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep - As per Angela. This is a fairly typical joke for IRL wikimedia gatherings. No gathering is complete w/out Stroopwafel. --Philippe 08:53, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

• Strange, I must have been to nearly 10 meetups and one Wikimania, and I've never even heard of this until I noticed it on recent changes. Must be a very deep in-joke. Majorly talk 10:49, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

• I move to Keep per a review of policies and guidelines related to deletion:
  1. Meta:Inclusion policy#Policy
     • (Inconclusive) Not covered in either "Acceptable" or "Not Acceptable" categories.
  2. Delete:_this_page_does_not_belong_on_meta#What_is_Meta:
     • (Possibly inclusive) See "Wikimedia association issues"
     • (Very slightly inclusive) This page mentions "historical pages" under "Which pages are more likely to be a victim of deletionists",

     but does not specify that this is correct behavior or not. The word choice leads me to think not.

  3. Meta:What Meta is not:
     • (Inclusive) #3, "Meta is not entirely formal, and many of its pages are meant to be humorous." seems to apply.

  As currently written, the deletion policy as well as historic precedent seem to weigh in on the side of keep.

  The outcome—either way—should likely be recorded on the inclusion policy page, for future clarification. Kylu 05:51, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

• Keep Meta is meta not Wikipedia fortunately. And per Kylu & MarsRover --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:47, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep per Kylu. – Innv | d | s: 09:24, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
• Keep - largely per Kylu and per Angela. It's a harmless 'in-joke' :) - Alison ^❤ 13:56, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

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