Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greased Pig Chase


 * 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   keep. no consensus for deletion - merge options can discussed in the talk pages JForget  00:41, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

Greased Pig Chase

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Event seems non notable. There are three external links, of which one is a blog and the other two are the same news article which does not appear enough for notability. Google search throws up nothing useful. HJMitchell   You rang?   21:51, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. However, the article should be reworked slightly to be more broad. Right now, it almost reads like a specific event, whereas it should be written more like a general type of event, like sack race or three-legged race. (Just changing it from "Greased Pig Race" to "Greased pig race" would help. lol) A quick Google News archive search brings results of stories about greased pig chases going back as far as the 1920s and 1930s, and the 1950s and 1960s. As well as articles about the type of greased pig chase controversies the article briefly describes. Interestingly, there is one article from 1916 that, according to the headline, also seems to indicate controversy. I think with a bit of work and Wikilove, this could turn into a pretty interesting article (not to mention with some interesting art! lol) —  Hunter  Kahn  ( c )  22:03, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge with pig wrestling, which already mentions greased pig chase as a variation. News search brings up quite a few hits so there are other potential sources. Cassandra 73 (talk) 22:08, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, a well-attested historical practice with plenty of coverage through the ages. Sorry that I can't provide the source, but when I was little, I owned a children's book that discussed the childhood of George Washington and noted that greased pig chases were popular in his day.  Period sources surely would be useful here, not to mention sources from the last 2½ centuries.  Nyttend (talk) 00:24, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Just a little OR — pig wrestling appears to be more a variant of greased pig chasing, as I've heard of GPCing (by that name) in many contexts but never PWing before; perhaps merge PWing into GPCing? Nyttend (talk) 00:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep, quite popular. Most rural towns in Spain have pig chasing events also, especially around San Martín.Tris2000 (talk) 11:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Found a US NYT mention from 1888...http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9802EEDA1230E633A2575BC1A96E9C94699FD7CF --75.145.91.229 (talk) 23:22, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge with Pig wrestling - direction merge should go is not entirely clear to me, but I think they should be one article, which I am confident can be well sourced. Lady  of  Shalott  18:27, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: It's only a snippet view, but it seems greased pig contests (I'm seeing 'contest' and 'competition' coming up a lot more than 'chase' in my searches) were established enough to be outlawed in Minnesota. Wish I could see what year the law was from. Also In 1821, Northamptonshire poet John Clare immortalized the greased pig chase in verse, for what that's worth. Some jerk on the Internet (talk) 19:21, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: According to this State of Minnesota website, that law was apparently adopted in 1971, revised 1981. The citation would be "Minnesota Statutes, Section 343.36 GREASED PIG CONTESTS AND TURKEY SCRAMBLES" Jonathunder (talk) 05:05, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge with pig wrestling and create greased pig contest as another redirect to the same, per above. Jonathunder (talk) 18:30, 10 December 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.