Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garden Soccer (0th nomination)

Garden Soccer
Fixing this VfD, which someone partly nominated but forgot to write this part. Will be happy to take their nom as my own. This appears to be a sport someone made up. Not notable, possibly original research. May be from that guy who invented another group of fake sports that were on VfD a few weeks ago. Delete this. --Improv 16:57, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Well it isn't fake, but it isn't popular either. Get rid. David Johnson 17:50, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Everyone has a "garden" sport of this or that sort.  Backyard football, street baseball, street hockey, etc.  The article is slightly amusing, though, so delete pleasantly, and get a rabies shot. Geogre 19:22, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Original research. Not widely recognized as of 2003. Not as interesting as Soccer Bowling. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 19:38, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Don't delete it . Just look at www.gardensoccer.com to really understand.
 * Anonymous votes are not counted. --Improv 20:49, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my name is Baz. I created www.gardensoccer.com and posted this.  Must I register in order to be listened to? :( RobertoBaggio
 * You don't have to register to be listened to, but you do have to register if you want your vote to be counted. Incidentially, you haven't given a reason why you think the article should be kept. I looked at the URL before, but I didn't see anything on there to convince me. David Johnson 22:19, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm new to this so forgive me for any mistkaes I make. I think it should be kept as it's very informative.  Sure, Garden Soccer only has a small fanbase but with the help of the likes of Wikipedia, it can grow.  I'm sorry if this isn't the kind of thing wanted on here bt one day Garden Soccer will be big and Wikipedia can boast this content and get some nice public opinions.  Anyway, delete it if you must but it'll be a shame.  Cheers.  Also, I did my best to not turn the article into one long advertisement for my website, hopefully I did ok. RobertoBaggio


 * Sorry you're getting such a rough introduction to Wikipedia. The article is well written, and you'll notice that nobody called it advertising (and believe me, if people thought it was they would have said so). But Wikipedia is not a vehicle for promotion, and is not for the purpose of helping games with small fanbases grow. It is an encyclopedia that has articles on games that already have a significant fanbase. You will have to wait until Garden Soccer does before we will accept an article on it. You may have noticed that you have a user page. If you click on it RobertoBaggio, you will see that I have taken the liberty of putting the Garden Soccer material on your user page, where I think it's OK for you to have it. You may want to add some introductory notes explaining your connection to the game. Try not to be bothered by the tone of this discussion. I think the page is probably going to be deleted, but it's not a big deal. You gave it a shot but it's probably not going to work. But nobody minds your giving it a try. Take a look at Deletion_log if you want to see some of the uglier submissions we get. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 02:55, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Note that as the kind-of nominator for this article, I want to state that I agree with Dpbsmith that no ill-will is intentioned in putting this on VfD -- we mean nothing personal by placing it on VfD. --Improv 04:15, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Cheers Dpbsmith. There's a childish discussion going on about this very article right here if you're interested.  I guess I should wave goodbye to this article though. *waves* RobertoBaggio
 * Actually, that's a very interesting thread and I suggest that other Wikipedians take a look at it... a great view of how Wikipedia looks to a group of curious outsiders who have just discovered it. Exchanges like "How come you can just edit pages willy nilly, I just deleted a load of stuff." "Hey, leave Wikipedia alone! What did you delete?" But I think my favorite quote was "Little did they realise they'd have to deal with vandals like you." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 20:44, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Not to name name's but one member of that messageboard leads a one man crusade against myself and Garden Soccer. here are some of the comments he has made on the subject recently.  There are others but they're in a 13-page-long thread on the other messageboard.  I believe he's the little vandal who keeps "messing" with this article.  Anyway, I'm glad you found the thread helpful.RobertoBaggio


 * Delete it. It's a game that this guy (^^^) made up with his two friends. You can't be having an encyclopedia page for every childs silly hobby. He's already gone too far by creating a website.
 * Above posting is by User:195.92.168.178, who was also kind enough to vandalize the article in question. --jpgordon{gab} 00:16, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a promotional medium. --jpgordon{gab} 00:16, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete --fvw* 00:29, 2004 Nov 24 (UTC)
 * Delete. jni 09:36, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's annoying enough on the forum from whence it came. It's just a bad joke. ~Aconite~
 * Delete. Cribcage 19:48, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. [[User:Squash|Squash (Talk) ]] 06:31, Nov 28, 2004 (UTC)