Talk:Rickrolling

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Date	Process	Result
June 4, 2007	Articles for deletion	Deleted
April 2, 2008	Articles for deletion	Kept
December 3, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
June 15, 2013	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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On 24 March 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Rickroll. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Requested move 24 March 2024[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – Hilst [talk] 13:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rickrolling → Rickroll – Why is the title is the present tense? Coddlebean (talk) 09:47, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Its about the act, not an instance, so WP:GERUND with -ing is appropriate and commonly-used. -- Netoholic @ 11:37, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose. This is about the act of rickrolling. O.N.R. ^(talk) 16:55, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per above. And rickroll would actually be the present tense! -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:01, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:GERUND per above. Like, for example, while we COULD technically use the noun version ("a rickroll"), the current title is using the verb version (as in "to rickroll someone") — and because we're using the verb as the title, it should follow WP:GERUND. Paintspot Infez (talk) 03:29, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose why use the verb form when the WP:GERUND form is being used. A wikt:en:gerund is a noun. "To rickroll" verb form, WP:VERB we don't use verb forms in titles, since you seem to propose moving it to the verb form -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 08:52, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Youtube URL structure[edit]

It might be worth noting that Rickrolling is only possible because Youtube is using a simple, outdated URL structure with just a random ID number as parameter, with no indication for the content of the page in the URL itself, as most websites today use. If the link URL were something like youtube.com/rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up.html, nobody could be fooled. 78.55.129.159 (talk) 20:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC) Hans[reply]

Rickroll (CHANGE REQUEST IF UNDER 1,600,000,000 VIEWS)[edit]

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Please change '1.5' to 'under 1.6' 70.22.248.187 (talk) 22:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: "Under 1.6" is too vague to be useful; the current text, "over 1.5", is preferable. —C.Fred (talk) 22:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

revert[edit]

@C.Fred: I realized that you reverted my edit, and I reflect that maybe my edit summary was a bit naive :'). I was simply deleting the part mentioning that the video has garnered 1.5B+ views on Youtube because that was already mentioned in the very beginning. I hope you understand and reconsider your revert.

^Pingy/_Pongy 02:31, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rick Astley losing popularity[edit]

Rickrolls died down around 2021-2024. A lot of games show photos of Rick Astley , leading to a climax of approximately 10 million ditches at 5:00 on the fifteenth of June in 2024. 103.100.225.238 (talk) 08:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And what does this mean exactly? SuperWikiBrother (talk) 10:23, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]