Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yahoo! trolling phenomena
This article is clearly '''|original research'''. And based on the page history, there have been persistent attempts to violate '''|neutral point of view''' by adding vanity. The article also has '''|notability''' problems&mdash;is this a legitimate phenomena? What '''|published evidence''' supports this assertion? Has anyone written a book or even an article about this alleged phenomena? (And even then, the book or article would have to have been broadly distributed to be counted as a '''|reliable source'''.) Additionally, if such a work were cited, all material in the article would have to be restricted to that source to conform to wiki's ''no original research'' policy. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a primary source of information. All material submitted should have been previously published and editors should stick closely to the original source. However, if an editor accumulated all this information and then had it published (by an independent, professional publisher; a photocopier doesn't count), and if said publication were ''broadly'' read by a sizeable number of people (at least nationwide), ''then'' the publication could be '''|cited''' as a legitimate reference. Otherwise, I see no way around the ''no original research'' policy.As far as using "google searches" to substantiate the article, I don't give those much weight. One problem is that Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia; so this article could already have been distributed across the net (thus biasing the web results). I would also be suspicious if a web site conveniently popped up to support everything asserted in the article. In any event, web cites (perhaps I meant web sites) should not be used as primary or secondary sources unless the author is recognized as a scholar in the particular field that he or she writes about. And even then, such information should (ideally) be mirrored in a paper-published form with a wide distribution. (Increasingly, I rely less and less on web sources; generally I only use web references if the author is a recognized authority and has published essays or books&mdash;in paper form&mdash;in his or her field
— User:RlyehRising, 00:54, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOR||WP:NPOV||WP:N||WP:V||WP:RS||WP:CITE (Wikipedia:No original research)