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Logs of previous VFD attempts.

• April 30, 2004 – May 7, 2004 No consensus
• September 2, 2004 – September 8, 2004 No consensus
• September 27, 2004 – October 5, 2004 No consensus
• December 25, 2004 – December 31, 2004 Discussion was moved to legacy "old VfD" page, and was never officially closed
• June 30, 2005 – July 1, 2005 Discussion was improperly delisted by an unknown user
• July 8, 2005 – July 14, 2005 Keep (78 to 55, under strict anti-sockpuppet measures)
• October 5, 2005 Discussion was delisted as "cancelled" (this is not a normal method of closing debate)
• December 15, 2005 Discussion was delisted as speedy keep with a momentary consensus to delete. Sent to Deletion Review; no consensus, "general idea is that maybe we should wait 6 months before listing it again." Note that this does not mean you should automatically list it on June 15th.

This article was previously considered for deletion on eight occasions. Most discussions have resulted in no consensus with a default to keep this article. Consult and consider these previous discussions before nominating it again. Your nomination may be seen as bad faith or putting undue stress on the AfD system. See also Misplaced Pages:10 GNAA VfD nominations pool.

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Archive

• Talk:Gay Nigger Association of America/Archive1 22:55, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Gay Nigger Association of America/Archive2 22:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Gay Nigger Association of America/Archive3 08:01, 18 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Gay Nigger Association of America

Mistakenly posted on Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Gay Nigger Association of America. – Extraordinary Machine 14:15, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Should be reconsidered for FA statues and front page, as the recent article Cool (song) has lowwered standards. - JeffBurdges 12:31, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

AfD

This article has been on AfD 7 times already, each time it was kept. Stop wasting all our time. I have reverted and protected because this is clear disruption. I will list this on WP:PROT, note this on WP:AN/I and leave a note on User:Jimbo Wales page. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I'd like to point out that the last time an AFD discussion ran to conclusion on this page, the result was clearly "no consensus", to either keep or delete. The last AFD and the one you just closed were closed early. Unless there is a consensus to keep an article I don't really see what's "disruptive" about relisting it. Demi /_C 20:11, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Guess you've never had to admin the AfD for this article. You try it. - Ta bu shi da yu 21:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I tend to agree. Silly, perhaps, but not really disruptive. Those that wish to ignore the Afd are free to do so. Friday (talk) 20:21, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

And that's the whole point. This is deletion by attrition. - Ta bu shi da yu 21:35, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Eh, I agree with Demi. WikiFanatic 23:03, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree with Ta bu shi da you. I've voted keep on this article many times. Please consult the previous nominations for my reasoned views on it. This time, I'm considering voting delete. If it's deleted, I intend to recreate it 8 times with different content each time. Given the article's treatment on AfD so far, I dare anyone to call me on WP:POINT in that event... — David Remahl 00:13, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

I like 7, its prime, keep it that way. GNAA isn't going to be deleted, not this decade anyway. More AfDs only discredit Misplaced Pages's notion of consensus.

Here is a "modest proposal" for an AfD gidline which should fairly resolve the AfD by attrition issue:

If an article passes 5 AfDs, allow keep voters to cut&paste good keep votes from past AfDs, and pseudo-count them if the original voter never changed their mind in a later AfD.

AfDs are supposed to be a conversation, not just majority rule, so it makes sence to quote old votes, and give them "some" official weight. Ideally, the original author of that vote should drop by & endorse it, for it to have full weight, but if they don't find the AfD in time, people should still weigh the old argument.

Or you could just trust that people will just inherently vote keep after too many AfDs, which seems to have worked thus far. JeffBurdges 03:25, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Sources?

This may well be an exceedingly unpopular suggestion, but what do people say to removing whatever isn't backed up by reliable sources? Specifically, I don't see how forums are reliable sources. I know, this article is about an Internet-thing, so some may say any website is automatically a good source. So far I'd disagree with that tho- I don't see a good reason to abandon normal standards just for this article. Thoughts? Friday (talk) 23:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

You're absolutely right. Anything can be written on an Internet forum; it's not a reliable source. A news website, or well-regarded blog, is a reliable source. Ashibaka tock 01:39, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

It should not be removed, but it should be "langauge sanitized." If a particular part is a load of crap / hyperbole, one might find out that "langauge sanitization" deletes it, but one should have the goal of keeping information presented it.. and one should feel sad when one fails to do so.. otherwise you might not be reading the sources adequately. JeffBurdges 02:56, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

"Controversial" tag

Because of the extreme amount of dispute on this article (even by Misplaced Pages standards) I propose we add Teplate:Controversial right on the front of the article. No other article has inspired so many deletion attempts as well as good-faith Featured Article debates. "Please check the talk page before making any major changes" doesn't help when the notice is on the talk page itself. In this case I don't think the template would be inappropriate on the actual article. This might also cut down on the clueless VfD attempts. Any thoughts? --TexasDex 02:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Maybe we could give it a prize for surviving soo many VfDs too?  :) JeffBurdges 17:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I found the ContraSub template, which is meant for in-article use. I'll insert that, although I don't know why we have two separate templates for talk pages and articles. --TexasDex 05:03, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Archive

Mediawiki is now warning about the size of this page. I would archive it myself but I don't know if should be done manually, whether it's an admin job, etc. Please archive it and advise me for future reference. --kingboyk 03:37, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

The instructions are right here. I'll do it now, but that's for future reference. --TexasDex 05:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Much appreciated, thank you. --kingboyk 08:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:GNAA deletion policy

I'm trying to formulate a policy for repeat AFD nominations at Misplaced Pages:GNAA deletion policy. Feel free to contribute. Firebug 03:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The community rejected this policy as instruction creep, which is a valid objection IMHO. But this does not prevent "general concensus" from effectively enforcing the same policy on the GNAA page. Jimbo vaguely suggested trying to delete GNAA exactly once per year. So why not just follow this suggestion without the instruction creep? I recommend adding the following text to the top of this page, just under the list of VfDs:

December 15th is GNAA AfD day. The poor admins who must manage GNAA's potentially numerous AfDs will very probably speedy keep GNAA AfDs on any day besides December 15th. Such speedy keep are likely to survive challenges on Misplaced Pages:Deletion review too. A proper AfD procedure for GNAA is planned for December 15th, 2006. See you there!

Thoughts? No policy rules, just a statment of probable admin behavior. It reinforces its non-policyness by mentioning that such actions are subject to ordinary deletion review. And setting a date should make everyone happy. This should not impact the poll, as speedy keeps presumably count towards the poll. BTW, no polls respondents guessed December 2007. JeffBurdges 16:42, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

People should nom it whenever they like, as long as they recognize that admins hate seeing this page on AfD. Ashibaka tock Save our rectangular corners! 00:31, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Dremel Incident

"The Dremel website incident happened on October 31, 2004 and featured a pumpkin carving kit for Halloween and linked to a Goatse pumpkin image as an example of what could be achieved. GNAA members then added their logo to the pumpkin image, leading visitors to think the GNAA had hacked the Dremel website."

That's not how it went down. The dremel website was hacked by a third party after a link to the Dremel Pumpkin Carving Kit was posted on Slashdot. However, the image they linked to just happened to be on a server owned by a GNAA affiliate. We added the GNAA logo to the image, to create the effect that the website had been comprimised by us. We, however, did not actually do this. We do not know who did.

If no one has any objections, I will correct the article.

I am sure you can source this by timestamps on Slashdot posts.

--GNAA Staos 01:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

merge proposal

Last Measure did not create GNAA; GNAA created Last Measure. Merging is counterintuitive.

Adrian Lamo · (talk) · (mail) · 21:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Un-researched speculation

'The internal structure of the GNAA is unclear and some argue that they have no real structure or actual members; business is conducted in a public IRC channel and those acting in its name may simply be individuals working under the GNAA "banner".'

I changed this the "secret" to "a public IRC channel", but this sentence still feels like crap added just to weaken the article. It (outside of my change) is pure speculation, and obviously whoever added it had no information to go on. Would have deleted already but for a way to not leave a big hole. Shall I go ahead and remove it? 24.255.11.232

Yes. It's unsourced, and probably an original opinion. Ashibaka tock 05:26, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Update: similar problem, the description "psuedo-organization". More crap added to weaken the article. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Gay_Nigger_Association_of_America&diff=37535516&oldid=37535431 It seems a wannabe-admin wishes to participate in bad-faith edits. Keep an eye out, this looks like it may degenerate into a puerile edit war. 24.255.11.232 04:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

afd

Can I please nominate this for AFD? Groups like this only spam and troll to get attention and this wikipedia article is rewarding them for their efforts.--God of War 23:42, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

No you can't. --blackman 00:01, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Trust me, GoW, don't go there. Ashibaka tock 06:38, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

No. No, no, no, no, no. It's been discussed to death, and the general consensus is that you'll have to wait, at least till around 2007, before anybody will take an AfD nomination on this article even remotely seriously. It's been tried so many times before that most of the people who watch this article will remove AfDs on sight, and rightly so. --TexasDex 07:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Every time this article gets an AFD, it survives and just encourages the trolls. ZachPruckowski 17:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Arguably many of our articles increase exposure for groups who don't deserve it. That's a negative side effect of any complete and informative encyclopedia that we just have to deal with. After all, if we don't discuss the GNAA from a neutral point of view, who else will? Deco 02:41, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Sources

Geeze, all the alleged references are attempts at press releases, IRC logs and forum pages. These are not even close to being good sources. How are we supposed to check any of these claims? Oh yeah... through original research. That this article remains amazes me. It is utterly unverifiable. --W.marsh 18:48, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Where else would one go for references on GNAA? The New York Times? Washington Post? The Economist? What kind of sources do you want? --dj28 18:58, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Good sources, like I said. That none apparantly exist says a whole lot about whether or not a topic should be in Misplaced Pages... we shouldn't start doing original research on this one topic just because a bunch of people apparently feel like it. --W.marsh 19:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

None of it is original research. Surely you don't want us to go through wikipedia and list supposedly "good" articles with no "good" sources, do you? Many "good topics" exist without references in old print papers. You're just using this as an excuse to undermine this article which has survived many afd attempts. --dj28 19:06, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

It's assumed that articles are written on information from good sources, references are nice but only really needed when a challenge comes up. So no, most articles out there don't need references since no one is questioning whether they're based on good sources. But that's not the case here. --W.marsh 19:08, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

"Good sources" are only needed when an admin has a grudge against a particular article. Please list what you consider "good sources," and we'll go through wikipedia and accordingly add articles which do not comply with your standards to AfD. --dj28 19:10, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Those would be bad faith nominations, most likely. Has anything approaching a reputable publication mentioned GNAA or said anything about them? Has even Slashdot (I think not }? Until then, anything said here is really original research. --W.marsh 19:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

They wouldn't be bad faith. Each nomination would include a source link to your list of supposedly "good sources." Yes, slashdot editors have mentioned GNAA on several occassions. Is that the standard you want to use or not? Or do you perhaps want to change the standard when those sources are provided? If you don't think this article meets your standard, help improve it or nominate it for AfD for the 10th time. You can edit this article like anyone else. --dj28 19:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

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