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This is not a valid Wikipedia page

This is not a valid Wikipedia page and doesn’t add any value.

It’s obviously been set up by someone to win an argument on Twitter or Reddit but it existing adds nothing to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a dictionary and not a place to win personal crusades.

suggest it should be deleted. 86.144.169.36 (talk) 20:35, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What counts as topical debate and genuine interest?

I'm almost afraid (because this article is on the Wiki and not in the Wiktionary) that I will be perceived as someone sea-lioning by replying to this Talk page at an interval of years.

Yet it seems to me that the party that loses interest, or wants to escape topical debate by claiming that they are being harassed, are not as interested in the topic as the one they want a meme comic to portray as a troll.

I'm not affected at all by the presence of this article on Wikipedia, except for the fact that it's on the Wiki and not in the Wiktionary. I just didn't understand the word and found a meme in an encyclopedia.

Surely, this was some temporary thing long ago and no longer relevant, especially since - if it is trolling - there is already an article for that.

I just don't see it. What is this beyond some unknown person being trolled somewhere on some forum or social media and deciding s/he didn't have time time pursue the topic, if s/he were really honest? S/he just wanted to make a bold claim and then rather not answer questions from that. If it was a temporary experience that felt like trolling from asking for proof as Wikipedia asks of every edit, why not call it that and remove the article?

If it suggests persistence or staying on topic, how is this bad compared to some blogger wanting to hit and run? Surely Wikipedia can't arbiter in favor of that and have success. It's simply a poor decision that reflects badly on Wikipedia.

This is why I again suggest Deletion appealing to article 6, 8, 10, and 14 (second pillar of Wikipedia). I would support moving this to the Wiktionary, in order that it not taint the status of Wikipedia as an on-line encyclopedia. I have no stake in any discussion involving some persistent on-line intellect seeking truth from a statement they found correct or incorrect.

We have [[1]] already.

We have [[2]] already.

So, why is this page here?

Henrik Erlandsson 01:31, 14 April 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by HenrikErlandsson (talk • contribs)