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.
It is not a "throwaway line" but is a movie joke that comes back to the main characters.
It is also not a "throwaway line" because it has had huge impact on the Transformers community, on a par with a major (though not leading) character, e.g. like Jetfire. Robinson weijman07:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Same can be send of many Transformer related articles, and many other science-fiction articles and for that matter fictional items in general... I really don't know where the line is drawn in Wikipedia, but for consistency I think this should be kept. Please also note that, based on the above comment, the reason for deletion appears to be changing. Robinson weijman10:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No, it cannot. The line is drawn at prohibiting original research. Many science fiction topics have already been written about outside of Wikipedia in books, articles, and papers about science fiction. To make a case for having an article on this aspect of a fictional universe, you must provide sources that demonstrate that writing about it is not original *research. Where are the books, papers, journal articles, or other published works outside of Wikipedia that have analysed this greeting, its spellings (in the games and by fans) and its occurrences? Analyses of the greeting performed directly by Wikipedia editors and published first in Wikipedia are original research, which is forbidden here. Sources! Sources! Sources! Uncle G12:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The IMDb link confirms that the quote exists but not that it is siginifcant in any way. The everything2 link also does no such thing, not that it could be considered a reliable source anyway. It's a wide open system just like Wikipedia, except with even fewer checks and balances.. SubSeven08:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
'KEEP or MERGE. it doesnt warrant deletion, but i can see merging it with the article for the movie itself and creating a redirect, but if people ARE looking it up, it obviously should be left in some sense--Unicron0827 23:53, 5 March 2007 (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 talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.