Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flugnoober

Flugnoober was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to delete the article.

Appears to be a hoax. 31 Google hits for the word, none appear to be relevant. And yes, Google hits are a decent test for things that claim to be on the internet. -- Cyrius|✎ 22:13, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Delete found a handful of references (maybe 15) to flugnoober implying an unspecified sex act. but, it sure wasn't a very big deal. and found no evidence backing up the article. at the least, it's original research. probable hoax. Wolfman 00:54, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Wish it were true. About 13 hits in Google groups, all dated from the year 2000 by the way, things like "OK, "until somebody convinces me otherwise with good strong evidence I'm taking flugnoobering and hunteschwegels as a joke" and "Am I being suckered or is the cigarette smoking man preventing me from learning the truth about hunteschwegels and flugnoobering?" and "I have been asking all dictionaries with no success, guess you must able to tell me what flugnoobering (picked up in the British Force Club, Yahoo) is meaning." It looks to me as if someone tried to pull off a hoax unsuccessfully, and is now trying again in Wikipedia. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete: It's a fun story, but if we're all scratching our heads over it, the claim that it was one of the biggest and best web parodies of all time rings a bit hollow. I swim in the middle waters. Food has to fall a little bit from the surface before I find it, but I'm no catfish. Without verification, this is probably incorrect. With verification, it's documentation of a one-off joke and not culturally significant on its own. Geogre 03:31, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Agree with George. jni 08:57, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• No, it is NOT a hoax

Try checking here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=flugnoober&submit=Search

This is what appears to be the remains of what were once up to several hundred "flugnoober" groups on Yahoo.

There are still likely to be loads more somewhere buried within the "Adult" sections of Yahoo, but as Yahoo does not publicly list any of its adult clubs any longer (due to the AFA running campaign against Yahoo vendetta during 2000/2001) it is hard to say. A lot will have been deleted in Yahoo's purge of inactive groups anyway circa 2003.

• Delete. Tedious, hard to verify, and unimportant even if it were to be verifiable. -- The Anome 16:25, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)

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