Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder ball


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The result was delete; I've created a redirect to Murderball as suggested. Flowerparty ☀ 05:07, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Murder ball

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Today, I looked at this article with a view to deleting this recently added content as unreferenced, and in accordance with Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. Then I considered the fact that this article has been tagged as unreferenced for over six months. I wondered if the whole thing wasn't unreferenced, unreferenceable, and essentially made up in school one day. I did my homework; googling "Murder ball" turned up this page as the first hit, and many references to the film Murderball, about the sport of wheelchair rugby. When I excluded "Murderball" and "rugby" from the results, I got almost 10,000 hits; seems there's enough out there for an encyclopedia article, but on closer inspection it's a real hodge-podge of articles about dodgeball variations, articles that happen to juxtapose "murder" and "ball" for some reason, references to Nick Cave (who knew?), and a few links that discuss games something like what is on this page. In short, murder ball - in the sense used in this article - seems to be a catch-all term for any number of variations on full or partial contact ball games that are, well, made up in school one day. I was tempted to just replace the page with a redirect to either the film Murderball or to dodgeball, or with a disambiguation page pointing to both, but I'm not sure that's emphatic enough. I think this page needs to be deleted and buried. When that's done, a new page - disambiguation, probably - can be created. Eron Talk 00:00, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not the place to put that thing you thought up whilst you were bored in school.  NA SC AR Fan 24 (radio me!) 00:32, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as WP:NFT. Re-create as dab per nom-- Lenticel ( talk ) 00:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * delete and dab out to at least Murderball and Tag_(game) humblefool&reg; 03:12, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * delete not notable elemetary school tag variant.MarsRover —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 02:54, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and then REDIRECT to Wheelchair rugby which is a legitimate sport played by disabled people.  Bur nt sau ce  17:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment If there is going to be a redirect, it should probably be to Murderball (film). I would recommend a disambiguation page, actually, as someone could be looking for the film, or for the sport, or for the schoolyard game (for which I would send them to Dodgeball. - Eron Talk 01:18, 9 October 2007 (UTC)


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