Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One trillion (basketball)


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The result was   merge to Glossary of basketball terms. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

One trillion (basketball)

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Slang term with little evidence of notability as a phrase. The only reference provides a brief explanation but no in-depth analysis is present -- or possible, for that matter. No evidence that the actual phenomenon is notable, either. Powers T 20:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I have this, this, this, this and this- downloadable PDF, plus Mark Titus' blog. There's certainly a lot to work with, plus Doug Smith has written about basketball long before the Raptors were a reality, so I doubt he's just "making the term up". -RomeW (talk) 21:09, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I never said anyone was "making the term up." Whom are you quoting?  Regardless, my point is that there just isn't much to say about the term -- all those sources basically say the same thing, and none of them explain how a "1 followed by 9 zeroes" is somehow a "trillion".  (To be fair, some do say it's a 1 followed by 12 zeroes but don't explain what the extra three stats are.)  Yes, the phenomenon exists; yes, it's been written about trivially; but I don't see how a full encyclopedia article could possibly be written on the topic.  Powers T 23:01, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Arbitrary newspaper boxscore, has 11 stats columns (I'm guessing the 12th one comes from 0 field goals attempted... I feel like I read that somewhere but the link's escaping me right now). A lot of newspapers don't bother with all of those in the print edition, of course, but a full boxscore would include them. BryanG (talk) 05:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Merge with Glossary of basketball terms, which basically just means add the explanation about the name to the already existing entry there. Per RomeW's sources it's not a made-up term, but it's not a particularly notable one either, and I don't really see room for expansion. BryanG (talk) 05:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yawn. Oh, excuse me. DELETE. --Hammersoft (talk) 13:19, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge with Glossary of basketball terms, not useful to have a separate article about one minor term such as this.  JGHowes   talk  15:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
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