Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cold War Classic


 * 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. --Core desat 07:16, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Cold War Classic

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I have to admit, when I first read this article, I believed it and even edited it myself. It's a great hoax and deserves to be kept somewhere in those "funny, but not useful for an encyclopedia" archives Wikipedia has. Its tone is encyclopedic, its layout and style are Wikipedia-ish, etc. But here's why I'm pretty sure it's a hoax: absolutely no signs of it on google, google books, or other Wikipedia articles (an event of this magnitude has to be mentioned somewhere); a look through the index of the main source for the article, the book by John Lewis Gaddis (go to  and click on "view inside"), shows that neither "baseball" nor "Cold War Classic" or even Zagreb are mentioned in the book. Brilliant hoax, but we have to delete. Carabinieri 23:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC) "strongly endorsed by...Richard Nixon because he believed that the West would easily win such a game, and Leonid Brezhnev because he was widely believed to be drunk at the time."
 * Delete: I cannot find any sources for this through Google Scholar or through my school's index of journals and publications.  Seicer  (talk) (contribs) 00:00, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * BJAODN Hilarious. Dont' miss the "play-by-play."  Some of my favorite lines:

"Additionally, Cincinnati Reds second baseman Joe Morgan was allowed to play for East Germany, giving the Soviet Bloc the only professional player in the game."

"In the East, Husak was seen as a hero, and his inside-the-park grand slam was hailed as the 'Most Clutch Moment in Czeckoslovakian History'."

"Some, citing the significant defensive and offensive contributions to the Soviet side by their second baseman, actually viewed the outcome as a victory for the West, since the Soviet Union showed that it was extremely dependent on Western imports (in this case, Joe Morgan)." ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 00:26, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * FA status DGG 01:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:PORNBIO Dekkappai 01:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I Think you voted on the wrong one, Dekkappai. Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Actions • Words))) 02:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * ... I don't know... I see that same vote get thrown around from article to article till it eventually sticks on one... Dekkappai 02:37, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't get what's so funny about it, not even with the quotes cited by ObiterDicta... Ten Pound Hammer  • (((Actions • Words))) 02:31, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I think we have some place for funny jokes. It can be moved there.
 * Not sure. We have Russian jokes and other similar articles. Perhaps we can make a new Category Cold war jokes and keep this article as one of those. But this looks like OR. Ignore all rules? Biophys 02:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * BJAODN without a doubt. Mystache 03:40, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Also support creating Article of the Year for the artice. Mystache 03:44, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete from the main encyclopedia as satire/hoax. --Metropolitan90 04:01, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete hoaxalicious. JuJube 04:30, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Greatest joke ever. Or at least that I've read today. Definite BJAODN potential. I was also taken in by the article until the above referenced "Leonid Brezhnev, because he was drunk" quotation. What sealed the deal for me was when I realized they meant the actual heads of state were playing baseball, as opposed to national athletes (which I somehow shamefully found somewhat plausible). Still, very well written and worthy of retention somewhere in the annals of awesome. hellenica 05:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong BJAODN. One of the best prolonged joke articles I've read in a long time. Daniel Case 06:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. I don't think we even need to check up on whether there was a baseball game between various Soviet bloc and NATO leaders.. -- Mithent 13:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Just a heads-up: This article has been copied to User:Hellenica/Amusement. 129.98.212.171 15:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * BJAODN Very funny, while I was reading I was captivated and thought it was real, then I returned to reality. --Doc13mets 18:13, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Hilarious, but unfortunately this is not the place. So, Delete. FireSpike 00:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I hope you guys aren't deleting this just because I forgot the accent marks on Kadar and Husak. I honestly don't have anything against Slovaks or Hungarians, it's just that I have a Western keyboard, so I apologize if I gave anyone that impression. --Falconezzar 01:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * At first I thought this was an obvious hoax, as demonstrated by lack of support via google, google scholar, and other wikipedia entries, but then I realized that an event of this magnitude and international importance would of course be classified! Through the magic of historical revisionism, we are now able to understand the movements that led to successful detente and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.  GOD BLESS WIKIPEDIA.  -(Simulcra 02:30, 4 May 2007 (UTC))  Incidentally, I vote to delete this page.
 * Delete, and say what you will about WP vs Brittanica, I'll bet their editorial review board never gets to laugh like this!-- killing sparrows  (chirp!) 05:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * BJAODN and add to Wiki-Hoax Hall of Fame.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:05, 6 May 2007 (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.