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Date	Process	Result
June 4, 2007	Articles for deletion	Deleted
April 2, 2008	Articles for deletion	Kept
December 3, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
June 15, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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MTV Europe Music Awards

The MTV Europe Music Awards have been rickrolled when 4chan, as well as several other forums (I believe ultimate guitar forum actually started it), voted to have Rick Astley nominated. He accepted the nomination and may quite possibly win, which would be probably the largest rickroll ever.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.106.103.47 (talk • contribs) 01:53, 4 October 2008

First instance of rick rolling

I think the date in the article (2007) is inaccurate. I vaguely remmeber a website back in 2005-ish with a URL something along the lines of 1337.(something) which spawned the annoying pop-ups quickly which you had to close to exit the page.ZdrytchX (talk) 15:18, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The fifth link

The fifth link in the sources (supposed to link to a Fox News page) results in a 404 error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FooNation (talk • contribs) 04:36, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed using the miracle of the Wayback Machine. Thanks FooNation. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 05:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong date lol

Both the Italian and English are referring this video for the date of the rickroll starting, other than the fact that this didn't start the rickroll, both miss the right date by 1 month. it's May, not August, eiher April.