Talk:Buy Nothing Day/Archives/2017

Complete Failure to Meet Wikipedia's Notability Standards

This is a purely a vanity page created to promote a specific organization, Adbusters, and an event that no Reliable Source has covered. The only sources are the Adbusters website and a couple of other no-name sites. This article should be speedily deleted.NeutralityPersonified (talk) 20:11, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

• I agree, this article needs to be deleted entirely. There isn't much of any salvageable material here. 156.42.184.101 (talk) 19:32, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

CNN isn't notable? This is an event I've been aware of for at least a decade.

I for one, agree that this page should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.15.210.224 (talk) 00:22, 24 November 2017 (UTC)

Buy Nothing Day has been around for a very long time - A 'Google search' gives 'About 15,000,000 results in .51 seconds'.

It's listed in the National Day Calendar and advocates use the #BuyNothingDay hashtag to post on social media.

Years ago, I too thought that it was nothing but 'hype' by Adbusters magazine, which a journalist friend of mine loved. But Buy Nothing Day has been so aggressively promoted in places where I have been that I think we ought to keep the article and perhaps develop it further. Some 'critical' thinking about the topic might pose some questions to the concept, such as 'How many folks not promoting 'Buy Nothing Day' actually decide at some point before or during Buy Nothing Day to not buy anything on the day after Thanksgiving?' 'To what 'demographic' does Buy Nothing Day seem to actually appeal?' and 'Is intentionally buying nothing on 'Buy Nothing Day' a meaningful anti-consumerist exercise?' etc.

I think that the current 'Criticism' section (which does some of this) is thoughtful and well-written and a contribution to the Wikipedia project. MaynardClark (talk) 00:49, 24 November 2017 (UTC)