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Speedy Keep – The work is covered in Gizmodo, Kotaku,
Variety, Dread Central,
EGM, The RingerVice, Nintendojo. Notability is long since established. The "extremely long sections" cited by
2601:192:8800:6F60:7522:61F4:1E14:1166 in their nomination currently unreferenced by secondary sources are only unreferenced at present because the author only started publishing the third installment in the series back in March, and that they have done so has yet to be widely reported upon. All other sections are fully referenced and sourced. Additionally the supposed "paragraphs being cited to Discord chatrooms, Spotify urls, podcasts, and primary-source materials that fail to support the claims" also cited by
2601:192:8800:6F60:7522:61F4:1E14:1166 referred to a single three-sentence paragraph section referencing the wider fan community in the Reception section (there was no Spotify url cited anywhere) which has since been removed regardless. Please look
WP:BEFORE nominating, as things aren't always what they may seem to be from just glancing at the page itself.
KMWeiland (
talk) 16:08, 12 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep for the same reasons as listed by the user above. However, there is indeed a desperate need for markup, cleanup, and general improvements. The absence of third-party sources is not lost on me.
74.90.120.94 (
talk) 17:08, 12 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep per KMWeiland. There are too many reliable sources for this topic not be notable. I do agree with the notion that this page might need a slight clean-up.
Captain Galaxy (
talk) 14:01, 13 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep It needs some clean-up as others have mentioned, but I don't see an issue with it. For its notability, it is an important touchstone in the creepypasta genre and as another user mentioned above has been widely covered by numerous reputable sources. I think there's very little disputing that it's nearly on par with Slenderman in its significance of influencing the direction of how the genre developed as a whole. From a historical perspective on internet culture in the early 10's alone, it seems worthy to me.
97.78.193.35 (
talk) 04:15, 14 June 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. Sure it can use some additional trimming, but it was mentioned by
Vice, in detail by
Kotaku (on several occasions
[1],
[2]),
Engadget,
Bloody Disgusting (though not sure if that's user submitted or by the team),
Mashable. If it should be redirected, I think it's more suitable to have it redirected to
creepypasta.
soetermans.
↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 08:12, 14 June 2020 (UTC)reply
MERGE Although notability is demonstrated, it is bloated by original research, causing the article to be much larger than it should be. It is horribly unencyclopedic in its current state and should be returned to a paragraph at
Majora's Mask or
List of creepypasta.
76.19.207.82 (
talk) 08:09, 18 June 2020 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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