Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Magic Tricks Revealed!


 * 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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 22:40, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Magic Tricks Revealed!


Copyright violation issues have been raised on the page, so I will leave it blanked except for a couple of notices. But the copyright issue is not obvious enough, IMHO, to qualify the page for Speedy, so I'm tossing it up here instead. (I'm guessing that the copyright issues are about copyrights on the magic tricks themselves.) If you check out the previous version  of the page, I still do not think we want it on the project. It's totally unencyclopedic. It's scattershot, in that it appears to pick several tricks at random to reveal. It also has external links prominent, all to one site, and so may ultimately be spam. So overall I do not beleive that this page benefits the project with it's continued existance, and actually has potential harm. TexasAndroid 14:23, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice to transwikification to Wikibooks. This was a how-to article, and as such unencyclopedic.  Note, however, that the claims of copyright violation appear to be bogus: the text that used to be here does not duplicate the referenced websites.  Copyright only protects verbatim words, not ideas; and specifically, copyright does not prohibit the revelation of how stage magic tricks are performed.  - Smerdis of Tlön 15:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The pre-blanked version is primarily an advertisement for the linked website .  --Dachannien 15:45, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's not and pprobably never will be an encyclopedia article. -- Chris speranza! chat edits  15:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Linkspam to one site. Also, unreferenced. I doubt it's legal to reveal the secrets from a commercial site that makes money with the information. We can't copy text from a commercial site, so we can't copy products either. - Mgm|(talk) 19:31, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - Some people may want to use this article for homework or research in school and if this is deleted they will find it harder to get such information... — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ MeXsTa (talk • contribs)
 * The above Keep comment was actually left on the article itself here. I have moved it to this, the proper AFD discussion page. - TexasAndroid 13:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * We have plenty of encyclopaedia articles on magic tricks which can (and indeed in many cases already do) present any verifiable information on how those tricks work. The collection of information from a single source on an arbitrary small set of tricks under this non-useful title seems absurd, and has all of the appearance of an advertisement.  Delete. Uncle G 17:13, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with the arguments made. Alucard (Dr.) 20:41, 1 December 2006 (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.