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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

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This is just one of an infinite number of possible variations on the six degrees of separation game. It is completely arbitrary. Why Kevin Bacon, not Michael Caine or Warren Beatty or Patrick Stewart or any other randomly chosen actor? See the History section: plainly made up in school one day. This might just merit a short paragraph in Kevin Bacon, but that's about it. Guy (Help!) 11:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

• Keep notable meme, plenty of reliable sources. Catchpole 11:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, has been the subject of many published articles in non-trivial sources. Vizjim 11:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, notable meme that is called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon by many notable sources. 87.86.171.131 12:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• It doesn't matter why Kevin Bacon was chosen or if he deserves it, the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" thing is mentioned quite a bit in pop culture (even in Nature, apparently), with Kevin Bacon's name vastly more than any other actor. It's not Misplaced Pages's job to regulate whether pop culture memes are acceptable to our standards or not. If multiple reliable sources have covered them, we cover them. --W.marsh 13:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Arbitrary in the sense that the game didn't have to make use of Kevin Bacon, sure, but ever since it has, it has become a well-known and well-sourced pop culture meme. Tarc 13:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Certainly people could have fixated on Caine or Beatty or Stewart, but google it for Bacon, for Caine, for Warren Beatty, and for Patrick Stewart, in each case knocking-out the other three and Misplaced Pages. History, arbitrary or not, has produced a clustering around Bacon. Indeed, some might go so far as to suggest that this clustering has become more significant than talent in sustaining Bacon's career (such as it is). —SlamDiego 13:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep a rarity of rarities: a "meme" article that's notable and verifiable by reliable sources, and has remained notable for many years on end. The fact that it's been made into a published book is more than enough for me. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:07, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, probably WP:SNOWBALL-able. I was actually introduced to the concept of "The Six Degrees of Seperation" as a variant of "The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". Cheers, Lankybugger ○ speak ○ see ○ 14:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Delete- maybe add part of this article to the article on six degrees of separation, but there is absolutly no need for this subject to have its own page. Greatestrowerever 15:00, 23 March 2007 (GMT)
• Keep - we also have Bacon number and even (save us) Erdős–Bacon number. We'll never know why Kevin Bacon, but there he is. -- BPMullins | Talk 15:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep; notable in and of itself, and the accepted source of where the phenomenon comes from (even though it was around longer than Kevin Bacon) --Mhking 15:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. This is the name by which the concept is popularly known to the most people, and we could probably source it until this time next week. (Whee, and I'm one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon!) RGTraynor 16:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep and a potential WP:SNOW candidate here. Agree that while the choice of Kevin Bacon as the poster child for the concept was arbitrary, it was not an arbitrary decision on the part of editors here, it's just how the concept evolved! Arkyan • 17:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, there's already at least one reliable source referenced, and while we should have more references than that, the sheer number of possible reliable sources from Google News alone means that attributing this article should be easy. — Krimpet (talk/review) 17:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Surely this is a joke? When I think "Six degrees of..." the first thing that comes to mind is Kevin Bacon. Burntsauce 17:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep One of the most repeated memes on the planet. I'd assume that Mr. Bacon's large repertoire of films combined with his four-syllable full name are what's behind the seeming random choice, but it's out there. Alansohn 17:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep I see no reason to delete this article. Acalamari 18:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong & speedy keep this should never have been AfD'd, this was one of the best known phrases in the 1990s computing community & is still in common circulation. - Iridescenti 18:57, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. None of the other actors mentioned have oracles dedicated to the concept. --Myles Long 20:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong keep, big pop culture meme, and I have been surprised to find totally non-internettish people aware of the joke. -- Dhartung | Talk 21:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Strong WTF time to get your head examined keep ... like Myles says above... none of your other suggestions have an oracle dedicated to them.  ALKIVAR™ ☢ 21:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. Umm...just a guess, but "Kevin Bacon" is a good rhyme with "separation." Bobanny 22:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy keep and close. Why in blazes is this being AfD'd? --Dennisthe2 22:38, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep I can see why someone unfamiliar with the (rather bizarre) concept might think it not notable, but it plainly is. JuJube 00:17, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - this was the original "six degrees" meme. --Haemo 00:39, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and will someone close this please. -- Selket 01:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep I can only surmise that the nominator does not understand the incredible ubiquity of this meme. I'd be surprised if anyone in the US under 75 didn't know of it, Net-savvy or not. This may be the most notable meme ever with hundreds upon hundreds of reliable third-party references and dozens of articles about it specifically. --Charlene 02:10, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• Maybe Guy just thought that we needed a slight jolt to wake us up to-day. :-) —SlamDiego 04:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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