Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Basketball sleeve


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   Delete.  Jerry  delusional ¤ kangaroo 05:36, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Basketball sleeve

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Non-notable medical instrument. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:24, 31 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Week Keep; hard to say that a medical instrument is non-notable. Possible redirect to compression bandage or something, but it does seem that they're out there and have some commentary: e.g. --Prosfilaes (talk) 19:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge somewhere I'm not sure if this is the most common term for the thing; I've also seen it called a shooter sleeve or arm sleeve. But in any case, it's worth discussing somewhere, either in its own article, or in a larger article about basketball equipment. Here are some news items about it:, , |DN&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FA395A048FC3F34&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM, etc. Zagalejo^^^ 22:43, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Legitimate article Users are abusing their powers in deleting this article. There is not good reason whatsoever. This articles extends the knowledge of Wikipedia. There just needs to be more contributors on the job in editing this article. It does not need to be merged into a larger article because there are so much information on this particular topic. It should be kept for editing purposes. Over time, this article will expand and become a great article on Wikipedia. I myself wanted to see this article on Wikipedia and that is why I created it. There are so many things regarding it. Also, "shooting sleeve" and "arm sleeve" can be words that redirect to this article. Please consider what I said. Speedy deletion would be a very poor decision. --Neil Nijhawan 18:30, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia's goal is stated as follows: "The goal of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other general purpose encyclopedia available..." People who use Wikipedia will be ignorant of this topic when they look for it for research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Neilstar32 (talk • contribs) 18:41, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Forgetting Wikipedia's goal

You never allowed this article to extend to its full potential. Like I said, as time goes on, more people would've made this article expand.--Neil Nijhawan 18:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Give an article a chance


 * Don't be an ostrich "Just because you don't know the subject of an article doesn't mean it is without merit for inclusion on Wikipedia." I realized that the people who are not that aware of the basketball sleeve are the ones who want speedy deletion. These same people did not give time for people who knew of this topic to edit it.

These users are doing their best to keep newcomers out of Wikipedia. You cannot expect a newcomer to know all the rules ahead of times.
 * Please do not bite the newcomers


 * Merge and redirect; this phenomenon is too limited to warrant a full article. Should be merged with and redirected to compression bandage. Xenocide  Talk undefined Contributions  21:35, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * There's also an article on compression sportswear, which isn't great, but might be a useful merge target. Zagalejo^^^ 00:20, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.