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130:- I didn't say the article is perfect as it is, I was disputing your categorisation of it as "research". My main point is that just because a given article doesn't currently conform to Knowledge standards, that doesn't automatically mean it ought to be deleted. If these types of concerns are raised about a specific article, those interested in the topic should work to bring it up to scratch, rather than simply deleting. There is potential here for a good article, though it needs a bit of work (if there 160:
Popular culture always is referenced to some degree in various parts of time, and I do not believe that decades are but an arbitrary way to define culture and cultural movements. One could cite examples and attempt to prove retro movements for any arbitrary period of time, but it's not particularly
194:: Sorry I kind of changed it. I didn't see the deletion thing until after I moved the page sorry. The '80s had nostalgia or a "Retro Movement" towards the '50s. And '70s culture had an impact of the '90s too, so these crazes must exist. ( 91:
the article. Let's at least have a crack at editing it into an acceptable form first. Besides which I'm not sure I class much of it as research, it's more a list of easily verifiable examples that back up the existence of 80s retro.
266:- Article needs editing and developing not deleting. There are other fads and retro movement articles so the principle is acceptable, it's just the approach and writing of this one that is causing concern. 218:
changes with other users prior to making them. I can think of good reasons for the changes you made but there are equally good reasons for having seperate articles. --
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I cannot see any asserted rationale that stops this being a virtually random list of items of tangential relevance to "the 80s" per some random editor. Fails
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The article isn't really written in an encyclopedic manner, but it needs to fixed, not deleted as this is a proper topic. Is this the best namespace?
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I hope you don't mind but I've reverted all of your changes to the article. Assuming the existing article isn't deleted, please try to discuss any
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useful and attempts to imply a significance where none exists. Also, pretty much bound to be original research.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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an indiscriminate list of information. As I said, I don't doubt that '80s retro exists. --
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I don't know how to revert my edit back till before my previous edit, im still a newb. (
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While I don't debate the existance of '80s retro, this article as written is completely
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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in list form of an article that hasn't been written.
39:). No further edits should be made to this page. 288:). No further edits should be made to this page. 134:, I would wholeheartedly support deletion). -- 8: 182:. The article is quite interesting. 7: 24: 18:Knowledge:Articles for deletion 1: 44:The result of the debate was 305: 187:07:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC) 166:04:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC) 153:23:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC) 139:18:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC) 119:18:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC) 97:18:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC) 83:17:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC) 281:Please do not modify it. 271:10:34, 3 July 2006 (UTC) 259:06:59, 3 July 2006 (UTC) 243:04:44, 3 July 2006 (UTC) 223:15:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC) 209:04:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC) 199:04:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC) 58:02:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC) 32:Please do not modify it. 64:1980s retro movement 250:Looks like another 128:Response to Comment 220:Matthew Humphreys 136:Matthew Humphreys 94:Matthew Humphreys 71:original research 296: 283: 46:Keep and cleanup 34: 304: 303: 299: 298: 297: 295: 294: 293: 292: 286:deletion review 279: 67: 37:deletion review 30: 22: 21: 20: 12: 11: 5: 302: 300: 291: 290: 274: 273: 261: 245: 229: 228: 227: 226: 225: 189: 177: 168: 155: 143: 142: 141: 122: 121: 66: 61: 42: 41: 25: 23: 15: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 301: 289: 287: 282: 276: 275: 272: 269: 265: 262: 260: 257: 253: 249: 246: 244: 241: 237: 233: 230: 224: 221: 217: 213: 212: 210: 207: 203: 202: 200: 197: 193: 190: 188: 185: 181: 178: 176: 172: 169: 167: 164: 159: 156: 154: 151: 150:Ace of Sevens 147: 144: 140: 137: 133: 129: 126: 125: 124: 123: 120: 116: 112: 108: 104: 101: 100: 99: 98: 95: 90: 85: 84: 80: 76: 72: 65: 62: 60: 59: 56: 55: 51: 47: 40: 38: 33: 27: 26: 19: 280: 277: 263: 247: 231: 215: 191: 179: 170: 157: 145: 131: 127: 102: 88: 86: 68: 53: 50:Deathphoenix 45: 43: 31: 28: 252:rough draft 240:DaveG12345 206:Tigerghost 196:Tigerghost 184:Sahasrahla 87:I vote to 115:chit chat 111:cholmes75 79:chit chat 75:cholmes75 268:SilkTork 163:GassyGuy 216:drastic 103:Comment 248:Delete 236:WP:NOR 232:Delete 171:Delete 158:Delete 132:wasn't 107:WP:NOT 256:Ste4k 16:< 264:Keep 238:. -- 192:KEEP 180:Keep 146:Keep 89:keep 175:GWO 211:) 201:) 117:) 105:- 92:-- 81:) 73:. 48:. 113:( 77:( 54:ʕ

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Knowledge:Articles for deletion
deletion review
Deathphoenix
ʕ
02:00, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
1980s retro movement
original research
cholmes75
chit chat
17:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Matthew Humphreys
18:07, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
WP:NOT
cholmes75
chit chat
18:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Matthew Humphreys
18:32, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Ace of Sevens
23:41, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
GassyGuy
04:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
GWO
Sahasrahla
07:26, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
Tigerghost
04:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Tigerghost
04:37, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
Matthew Humphreys

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