Talk:Jeff K.

message: Did Jeff K really originate the term "asshat"?  I guess it wouldn't be too surprising if he did, since somethingawful.com has turned out to be the source of more than a few bits of Internet drollery, but I'm sure I remember seeing "asshat" in use before Jeff K. appeared on the scene.  The earliest uses I've been able to find are in Usenet here and here, but I'm curious if it's older still.
(As for "clownboat", I had never heard of it at all.  But I like it.) Saucepan 05:11, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm almost certain he didn't, I'm also skeptical at the though he "popularized" it, and am really unsure why it's even in there. Also I am however 100% positive he didn't start the misspelling of "teh", as the article claims JeffK was created mid May 1999, and I know its been on the internet since LONG before then, in fact I had a close friend who used the term often on his website, long before then. That really should be removed... -MoldRat 13:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

text: *I removed mention of asshat and teh, pending confirmation from a notable source. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 12:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

text: * I was called a "clownboat" on IRC at least a year before Jeff K. was supposedly created.  I was trading insults with another chatter when he began calling me nonsense phrases consisting of two seemingly random words put together.  I decided to mock him by changing my nick to each ridiculous insult that was thrown at me, and thus gained the handle "Clownboat" (his first insult, which was followed by the less-attractive "fagmelon"), which I've used ever since that fateful day.  However, the term was undoubtedly in use some time before that incident.  This occurred sometime in 1997 or 1998, but since I cannot speficy an exact date or provide written evidence, I'll leave the article as-is.  If further information surfaces confirming the existence of the term before Jeff K. used it, it should be removed from the article for brevity.See also the Urban Dictionary definitions.--Clownboat 07:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Did Jeff K originate the term asshat?

message: Jeff K.'s last name isn't Kyanka. It's something ridiculous like Karpopandopolis. It was mentioned in a letter he got from the department of justice.
--Cheburashka 13:53, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Jeff Kyanka" 

message: Is Jeff K.'s appearance as a "hidden" character in the fan-produced Awful Fantasy game (a parody of Something Awful, related personalities, and Internet sub-cultures using Final Fantasy VI as a vehicle, wherein Jeff K. took the place of Umaro) worthy of mention in the article?--Clownboat 07:08, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awful Fantasy 

message: I think this article should be redirected to Something Awful seeing as it doesn't really have any independent sources. --Wafulz 23:33, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article does cite independent sources, though, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. --Delirium 09:29, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really. It has a message board post, and a page by Maddox making fun of it. This could easily be summed up in one or two sentences in the SA article. --Wafulz 16:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose you overlooked the entry in the Jargon File. --Delirium 22:30, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I missed that. I still think this could be summarized much more succintly in the main article on SA. --Wafulz 23:11, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: Jeff K. is too big to be merged. It makes sense to keep him at his own article. --Liface 18:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of this article is just fluff on one character- half of it sounds like fanpage material. It could be summed up much more succinctly in one well-sourced and well-written paragraph in the SA article. --Wafulz 18:46, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Since the merge, the Jeff K section has been removed entirely from the Something Awful article, so as far as I can tell, there is no longer any material relating to Jeff K on WP.  I'd expect at least a paragraph on some sort of list of something awful characters page or something. 
Seems like a sneaky way to take content off WP, after a failed deletion vote: get it merged with another article, then edit it out entirely. 99.4.73.65 (talk) 21:44, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Main articles don't have to contain content from redirects.-Wafulz (talk) 14:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree; they ought to, or else the redirect is misleading. If someone looks up A and gets redirected to B, they should be able to, if they read the article at B, find out why A relates to it and therefore why they got redirected there. --Delirium (talk) 16:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Then nominate it for deletion if you want.-Wafulz (talk) 17:32, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jeff K is no longer