Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Game 5 of 2007 Eastern Conference Finals


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The result was delete. Sr13 23:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Game 5 of 2007 Eastern Conference Finals

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Artcile about overtime of a playoff hockey game being preempted for a horse race pre-show. While this is a controversial game for hockey fans, the event (which ended about 4 days ago) really hasn't had enough time to be written and talked about to be really considered significant and notable outside of the hockey community. This game already has a mention over at Heidi game, which seems to be enough for this event. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 14:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. While this personally infuriated me on Saturday, its not worthy of its own article. A brief mention at 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs might be in order, but that's about it. ccwaters 14:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:RECENT, etc. Mention it at 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and recreate if anyone at all remembers it in a couple years. BoojiBoy 15:12, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not Sports Illustrated. This information has no business hanging out in an article on its own and at best belongs within the context of the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs article.  Ark yan  &#149; (talk) 15:32, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, per norm Kaiser matias 15:38, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per comments of Ccwaters, BoojiBoy and Arkyan. Flibirigit 15:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: per above; this places undue weight (never mind the coining of a neologism) on an event that has not, in fact, yet demonstrated any widespread notoriety. (Me, I just flipped the dial to Versus)  Fully half the long article discusses unrelated incidents better described in a Preempted sporting events on TV article, presuming Wikipedia doesn't already have one.    RGTraynor  15:46, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment' A lot of these events are listed at Heidi Game. It seems there are enough events to make a separate article.  Patken4 21:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all the good reasons above. --Djsasso 15:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. While I have seen at least three reliable sources describing the controversy surrounding this, there really is no reason why this needs it's own article at this point.  It can be given a paragraph at 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs and 2006-07 Buffalo Sabres season, though in the case of the latter, I am not sure if the game was preempted in Buffalo itself. Resolute 17:07, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the Buffalo NBC affiliate stayed with the game. That was mentioned in one of the articles. I wouldn't be surprised if Rochester WHEC stayed on as well. ccwaters 17:13, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, the game definitely stayed on in Buffalo. In fact, I had no idea this had even happened until I heard Jim Rome talking about it the next day. Skudrafan1 17:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. GoodDay 17:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above. Skudrafan1 17:54, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete; agree with Resolute above. Elrith 18:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not going to bother voting, seems set as to what will happen, but what NBC did was rather stupid in my opinion.--Whstchy 20:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is a poor quality single game article without any of the proper infobox formatting for important games. However, this game is more important than the Heidi game. Actually, the article does not really cover the details of the game very well. It focusses on the controversy. Any decisive Stanley Cup Conference finals game is important enough to warrant an article, if done well. Many merge destinations could contain a synthesis of this poor quality article including 2006-07_Buffalo_Sabres_season, 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TonyTheTiger (talk • contribs)
 * Delete. This event has already been added to the Heidi Game article.  As RGTraynor says above, it could be added to a new article about sporting events that have been preempted.  Patken4 21:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Maxamegalon2000 21:41, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete haha, oh you poor American hockey fans. The victims of idiocy in the NHL front-office and their suck-uppetry to the apathetic NBC brass, kinda like a nerd doing the jock's homework, blindly hoping that the jock will finally befriend him. You guys can all hike up to here to Canada, where we got so much hockey up our televised wazoo, that they aren't even showing my blasted Blue Jays because of the Memorial Cup... anyways I've had my piece, I vote delete as per all the reasons above and I'm gonna go watch Game 6 of Detroit-Anaheim now without any fear of it being cut off prematurely.  Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 00:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: Well ... in the network's defense, horse racing is a good bit more popular than hockey is in the US these days. It reminds me vividly of listening to a radio sports show in Hartford where a caller complained that Whalers games were preempted for UConn basketball, and the moderator (Chuck Kaiton, who's been the Hartford/Carolina radio announcer since WHA days) drily responded that a hell of a lot more fans cared about the national champion Huskies than about the Forever .500s.   RGTraynor  13:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: And yet the NHL still bows to NBC's every desire. Hmmmmmm.... Croat Canuck  Go Leafs Go 01:46, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per all above. --Pparazorback 23:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
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