Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IRacing Sprint Cup Series 2016


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:14, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

IRacing Sprint Cup Series 2016

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This article is a pure copy of 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, tweaked to be for an online virtual NASCAR racing league (which we do have an article on: IRacing.com). The author has used the same text from the live NASCAR article but changed the drivers to apparently match the drivers in the virtual online league. My A7-Web speedy was declined as having credible assertions of notability, which it is easy to see all came from the NASCAR article. Other than the title, the online league is not mentioned anywhere in the article.

The author won't engage in discussion, and when CSD tagged, "contests" the tag by simply restating the title on the talk page.

I don't think redirects to IRacing.com are appropriate, as those would A:be free advertising, and B: are implausible redirects since one would have to type the target article's name, and then keep typing another couple dozen characters. To me these are still A7-Web speedies, but I'm not going to edit war over that, so I bring it here.

Lastly, the author has created several others in the same vein: IRacing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series IRacing NASCAR Xfinity Series 2016 IRacing NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Crow Caw  23:18, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  /wiae   /tlk  21:33, 14 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete Add IRacing 2016 Xfinity Series to the list. The only iRacing series that has some notability is the NASCAR Peak Antifreeze Series because it is sanctioned by NASCAR. –  Nascar1996  ( talk • cont ) 16:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete All on this page except for the IRacing.com article. They are virtual racing series and they have no indication of notability (WP:GNG).  Royal broil  13:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete C&pasted from an article about a RL event, but does not mention that the subject has been changed into an online game (I...). Should have been speedy tagged as vandalism (crude fandom action). -- Ben Ben (talk) 10:05, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - All of this was copied from the same article with changed drivers. Also, does having the crew chiefs' names count as a BLP violation if that's not what they're really doing? I don't play iRacing, so I don't know if crew chiefs actually do "crew chief" for drivers.  Zappa  24  Mati   18:12, 20 March 2016 (UTC)


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