Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Basketball Tournament


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:57, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

International Basketball Tournament

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After stumbling upon this page, I saw that this article had no other sources other than an anonymous personal website. As a big basketball fan, I've personally never heard of this tournament that's supposed to have run for 10 years. Although the article name is a pretty common term, when I googled it with some relevant terms, I found nothing reliable at all about it. I think that this is a rather well-detailed fantasy made up by someone with a lot of time on their hand. Noble Story (talk • contributions) 11:50, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Completely fails WP:V and therefore is not notable. In checking it out I agree with the nom and that it is WP:MADEUP.  The closest thing to trying and find out if this exists is a gallery of pictures with alot of collage students.  --Pmedema (talk) 17:58, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete This looks like an elaborate (and, for nearly two years, successful) hoax. The creator of the article made no other contributions beyond this one; edits since then have been anonymous, or have been housekeeping measures like adding tags; it's completely unsourced, nor can the nominator find anything about it in the news.  It's fascinating reading, beginning with the rules for the first "tournament" in the Bahamas ("1999: Takeout shot taken 17 feet away from the basket and two feet off center. The game was played to twenty points. All made baskets counted for two points")  The idea of 40 teams of basketball players travelling from all points of the globe to play a game to 20(!) is ridiculous, but not as ridiculous as the fact that this stayed up from January 2007 until now.  I'll save it to my own computer as an example of one that got past us all.  Hats off to the author for one of the more brilliant hoax articles to end up on Wikipedia.  Well played.  Mandsford (talk) 13:47, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 05:07, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


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