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Combination of memes/jargon based on particular kinds of people on the Internet framed as "stock characters" (a term which literally none of the sources use). Fails
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WP:INDISCRIMINATE. — Rhododendritestalk \\ 00:05, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete This is an indiscriminate list of terms that badly fails
WP:LISTN. Even the title/purpose of the list is dubious. Most of the items are not "stock characters" by any normal definition, and "internet" seems to be just where the list's author first heard the term. The individual line items are real definitions of slang terms and those definitions are sourced, but the sources don't establish the notability, or even the existence, of the category.
ApLundell (
talk) 00:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Speedy delete Indiscriminate collection of unrelated terms, no indication what all of these have to do with the internet, no indication what makes these "stock characters." The LGBT terms on this list have been around longer than the internet, and it would be completely inappropriate to just rename as DF suggests. The other more recently invented terms, while popularized on the internet, are not exclusive to it and remain unrelated. Karen is linked from
Archetypal name, perhaps that could take a couple others but this list is just bad.
Reywas92Talk 02:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete I don't know what distinguishes an "internet" term from a mass media term or schoolyard term, in 2020. This is inherently
WP:INDISCRIMINATE and represents
original research of a few editors sourced to cherry-picked sources, rather than any reliable verifiable phenomenon.
Shooterwalker (
talk) 14:38, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete - While the individual entries are sourced, there are none that talk about this grouping as a whole, which is a failure of
WP:LISTN, and none that describe them in the context of "Internet Stock Characters". Additionally, as pointed out, a number of these are terms/slangs that existed well before the internet. Overall, this is just a
WP:SYNTHy mess.
Rorshacma (
talk) 16:24, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Delete - Mostly per the others. About half of these don’t even have to do with internet terms.
Foxnpichu (
talk) 23:36, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply
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