Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2013 East Asian Basketball Championship


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The result was   redirect to 2013 FIBA Asia Championship qualification. The Bushranger One ping only 22:42, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

2013 East Asian Basketball Championship

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I'm pretty sure this is related to the 2013 FIBA Asia Championship qualification, however there's pretty much nothing salvageable: The lede is next to unintelligible, no sources are cited, and it pretty much imparts no information. Oh, and the creator has been blocked as a sockpuppet - I'd tag this for G5, but that seems a bit unfair, since I completely forgot to check back in on this article after I first PRODded it a month ago; additionally, it's possible that there might be a mergeable fragment or two, so some analysis from editors in this topic area would be useful.  — Francophonie &#38; Androphilie  ( Je vous invite à me parler  ) 07:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can't verify any of this information anywhere. If Australia and New Zealand were involved, I imagine there would be some sources available in English. The content that does exist in the article is so minimal that we could reproduce it within a minute or two if we had to in the future. Zagal e jo^^^ 18:44, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Question What about redirecting it to 2013 FIBA Asia Championship qualification? Nyttend (talk) 02:36, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If there still aren't many !votes after a week, that sounds like a reasonable "soft consensus". — PinkAmpers   &#38;   ( Je vous invite à me parler )  21:57, 24 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 11:04, 24 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. A Google search and a Google News search reveal a total of seven (7) mentions of this topic, which include the Wikipedia stub and six sources that are either mirror articles of the Wikipedia stub or derivatives.  Not even close to satisfying the notability requirements of WP:NEVENT and WP:GNG.  Spectacular FAIL.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:34, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Redirect it does seem to be a sub-topic of the referenced 2013 FIBA Qualifications article. All that I can discern are that (1) the listed countries are incorrect per http://www.fibaasia.net/Sub_Zones.aspx (there's no English-speaking countries in the East Asia bracket unless you count Hong Kong, which explains the dearth of English sources) and (2) on January 12th a seemingly reliable source (http://www.hoo.ph/2013/01/12/now-what-the-next-step-with-manila-fiba-asia-2013/) said that  besides the Gulf Zone, "All other zones have not provided details on their qualifying, save for the West Asian zone, which will have their qualifiers this February in Tehran."  So I think the best course of action is to redirect to the main article about the qualifications until the details can be substantiated, unless someone else can come up with something more concrete than my 10 minutes of research turned up.   AgnosticAphid  talk 17:21, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I guess some might object to my saying that blog counts as a reliable source. But I think my point still stands.   AgnosticAphid  talk 17:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I suppose a redirect would be harmless, although what bugs me is that there's no evidence that this event will definitely occur. Maybe there will be some other means of selecting teams for the Asia championship. Zagal e jo^^^ 19:46, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Redirect to 2013 FIBA Asia Championship qualification. I see that this event occured in 2011 and was covered in a section at 2011_FIBA_Asia_Championship_qualification.  If it doesn't occur in 2013, someone that knew about the 2011 event might want to see how the 2013 selection for East Asian teams occurred, which would anyhow be mentioned at 2013 FIBA Asia Championship qualification—Bagumba (talk) 02:34, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
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