Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/T-shirts


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

T-shirts
Orphan stub, could be made into a theme article. But it's not clear to me that this is worth keeping; certainly at a minimum we ought to require that the T-shirts quoted here meet some standard of notability, and I don't think these meet that standard. (If we don't insist on notability, this page has all the problems of Anonymous and the proverbs pages with little reward.) 121a0012 02:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: delete (6 deletes, incl. 1 implicit; no dissent; no concerns addressed). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 09:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete unless "quotes" sourced. Sure, everyone has seen "I'm with stupid →", but how many have seen "186,000 miles per second is not only a good idea, it's the law"? (The latter usually includes Einstein in police garb — very amusing, in a science-geek way.) No sourcing makes it possible for anyone to claim a slogan or witticism as a T-shirt or bumper sticker, which I believe is totally unacceptable. (I won't even get into how easy it is these days to create your own T-shirts and bumper stickers, making it possible for people to add vanity quotes from their own county-fair products.) I'm sure there are books out there that collect such sayings, so the task is not impossible. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:57, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 13:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with nominator - none of these are really notable T-shirt slogans. I think this article is also an advert spam magnet. David | Talk 13:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 23:53, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't know of any reasonable way to "source" quotes to a T-shirt, and as Jeff said, it's a simple matter for anyone to have a T-shirt made with whatever slogan they want. —LrdChaos (talk) 02:29, 18 September 2006 (UTC)


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