Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2012 FIRS Senior Men's Inline Hockey World Championships


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The result was no consensus. WP:NPASR. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 06:33, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

2012 FIRS Senior Men's Inline Hockey World Championships

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Unsourced. Trivial and non-notable. Fails WP:GNG. Also see WP:SPORTCRIT. Full of redlinks and broken templates. Created as part of a large swath of pages by a single user who has since left. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:27, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Standard World Championships page for a major sport. -DJSasso (talk) 16:48, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * on what planet is this a "major sport"? -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing)
 * The planet where it has had national television contracts. We aren't talking some sport that 10 people take part in. -DJSasso (talk) 17:58, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * HAH! Touche. Well said! I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one. The page is full of redlinks and multiple pretty broken templates. I guess I'm advocating WP:TNT. 99% of the page is taken up by tables that don't actually have any useful data in them. This is my stance on most of the Inline Hockey templates I AFDed (is that a verb? I'm making it one....). -- Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:01, 5 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not going to be sarcastic and ask "But which planet was that?" because then I will look like an idiot if you can show that it was on national TV in some country. Nonetheless, I do need to ask for some proof of this. My weak delete below is predicated on the assumption that there is no sign that this event was noticed by the media, let alone received significant coverage in reliable sources. I could be wrong. Maybe the article title here is not quite correct or maybe the coverage is not in English, either of which could cause my searches to fail to find the coverage. If there is notability then please show it. National broadcast TV coverage in any country would do but we can't just assume there must be notability based on the name phrase "world championship" in the title. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:36, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:36, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak delete (which I will happily strike if anybody can show that this event was broadcast on national TV in any country). A world championship sounds like it should be notable but we have no references here at all and it is all unverifiable now that the one external link is dead. Maybe it was verifiable when it was written so I won't hold that against it but the lack of anything on the Google News links is a big red flag to me. The media can't ever publish enough minor sports news to satiate its readers and yet I'm not seeing anything for this subject. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:29, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  16:43, 12 January 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, T. Canens (talk) 18:22, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Colombia-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:31, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment In 1992 FIRS were the organizing body that brought inline hockey to the olympics as a demonstration sport, ESPN showed some, and broadcast live Pro games primarily from the RHI throughout the '90's. However modern championships are streamed online by FIRS itself.  I follow the championships but am undecided on the yearly FIRS championships notability.18abruce (talk) 01:53, 23 January 2017 (UTC)


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