Talk:Doge (meme)

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because it is about a meme — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.120.12 (talk) 04:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It also seems that the only people who want this merged/deleted are simply people who hate it as a meme. I've never seen an article be scheduled for deletion so quickly. --ZeroShootman (talk) 03:33, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly there has always been an unyielding core of socially crippled curmudgeons on wikipedia who are militantly opposed to anything they perceive as legitimizing internet culture. Click their edit history and you'll often see that they'll happily expend hundreds of hours adding to articles on obscure Warhammer products or Star Wars novels, but internet memes that have been covered by the New Yorker, Salon, Huffington Post, and the Wall Street Journal are ruining their life by having wikipedia articles. Watch, they'll probably delete my comment just for pointing out this fact. 76.118.92.242 (talk) 18:41, 16 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Doge picture

The picture used in the article originates from this blog: http://kabosu112.exblog.jp/9944144/ Though cropped and manipulated to make the dog look fatter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.189.110 (talk) 12:29, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's an image on commons. Perhaps you should alert them. Dloh cierekim 13:36, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

At the time of the original post, there was a different image there than we have "now". DMacks (talk) 17:22, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This should be added to the article Shiba Inu, and not be its own article. Hotelmason241 (talk) 04:41, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Except this page would be simply too trivial to be mentioned on the page. Zappa O Mati 02:01, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously

Seriously Wikipedia, there are places for articles like this. There's Know your meme and/or Encyclopedia Dramatica. This meme isn't even relevant, this page is here just to be 'phat' with the stupid 12-years-old kids. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.163.250.99 (talk) 04:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously Anonymous, Popular memes are cultural phenomena that deserve coverage in its own merit. Now, had I knew that KnowYourMeme is here to stay I would have to agree with you, but this is not the case. As for "Encyclopedia Dramatice", although an internet phenomenon itself, it can not be assumed to be serious on any sane level. Zarnivop (talk) 08:57, 3 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you think that this isn't notable, then try WP:AFD and see how it goes. I note that there are {{merge}} and {{notability}} tags, so you are apparently not the only one who questions whether this is notable or not. --Stefan2 (talk) 21:49, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't a WP:PROD be more reasonable first? Zappa O Mati 21:55, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WP:PROD is not useful if people are opposing deletion (as User:Zarnivop seems to do) as someone simply will remove the "PROD" template. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:55, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation

What reference is there for the pronunciation? Just the Homestar Runner video? What may seem like a non-issue to the author of this wiki page is something hotly contested elsewhere on the internet and really isn't conclusive. For example, in a reddit thread from the beginning of December (http://www.reddit.com/r/doge/comments/1rnc8x/wow_such_confused_much_pronunciation_wow/) as of this second the top comment has 91 upvotes for dogue and the second-top has 83 for dohj. Also, a survey from this slate article (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/11/15/doge_pronunciation_how_do_you_pronounce_the_name_of_the_shibe_doge_meme.html) from the middle of November has dohj in the lead with ~36% of the vote and dogue in second with ~34%. This goes to show that the pronunciation is not unambiguous and there should be some discretion in the description. Especially considering that this is a page for informational purposes it would be noteworthy that the pronunciation is really a fluid and non-standard thing. As John Simpson, the chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary said, "A coiner effectively loses control of a word once it's out there." "For instance, the coiner of quark in the physics sense had intended it to rhyme with cork, but general usage has resulted in it rhyming with mark." So regardless of the supposed origin of the word used in this meme, which also is not entirely certain, credence should be given to divergent and perhaps even predominant alternate pronunciations that are prevalent on the internet. BJ Crowning (talk) 20:49, 15 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]