Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finball


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The result was   delete.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 01:31, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Finball

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The page itself directly admits that it is a violation of WP:NFT, as something some university kids made up a month before the "article" appeared. Violates WP:COI - the majority editors are clearly the students/competitors themselves, as the bulk of the edits by most of them are them adding their own names as new "champions". Violates WP:V and WP:RS, in that it not only cites no sources, there appear to be none in existence (exhaustive Google searches on things like "Finball pool -Wikipedia" and "Finball billiard -Wikipedia" find nothing relevant). Violates WP:NOT in a couple of ways, as the page is being used as a promotional web page for the new game, and the flurry of personal updates means the page is essentially being used as something akin to a blog and a clique message board by a group of friends. In short, this isn't any different from any other entry that WP:CUE has added to our list of previously deleted bogus cue sports articles, the re-creation of which we keep an eye out for. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 10:45, 22 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - Clearly a WP:NFT violation. No reliable sources seem to exist to establish notability. Blueboar (talk) 14:23, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as Something Made Up in School One Day. DarkAudit (talk) 15:14, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Per WP:MADEUP. Joe Chill (talk) 15:29, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per NFT. Bored uni students make up games all the time, I'm sure they'll be bored of it by Christmas and nobody will ever hear of it again.  Remind me to tell you some time about the cricket variant that my flatmates and I invented when I was a first year student, which we were dead keen on for about a week...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:09, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as a clear example of the "not something your friends thought up one day" part of WP:NOT. SMC (talk) 15:49, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
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