Talk:Happy99

This article was nominated for deletion on 19 February 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

A fact from Happy99 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Happy99 was the first computer virus to spread rapidly by email?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/April.

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Keep the article[edit]

The article may not be adequately sourced, but Happy99 was a very significant virus, many people receiving multiple copies in email, and as such, the article should not be tagged for deletion. Eauhomme (talk) 17:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

From the Wikipedia notability guidelines, "notability is not temporary," so as long as Happy99 once was once notable it remains notable even 10 years later. I beleive this worm received signifcant press coverage at the time although I do not have a good source for this. Happy99 was considered notable enough to have an entry in the Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms article. Vote: This is notable, keep. 209.90.142.18 (talk) 06:19, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a number of media reports and revised the technical details. ←Spidern → 14:39, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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