Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Play fighting


 * 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. -- Cirt (talk) 16:56, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Play fighting
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Article has been unreferenced since 2006, and I couldn't find any references for it. It is basically a dictionary definition. Google returns no usable result, but the the top Google results for the terms "horseplay" and "roughhousing" point to dictionaries. The small and not-very-useful amount of material in the article is probably mostly more-or-less true, but it reads like something written off the top of someone's head. Does not contribute to the sum of human knowledge as it is uncitable and unusable due to its inability to be referenced, and the existence of the article gives the false impression that we have something useful to say about the subject. I believe that it is probably possible to write a decent short article on the subject, and I'll bet that somewhere there is source material in child study literature for such an article, but anybody writing a real article might as well start from scratch. Herostratus (talk) 04:30, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Play could be a suitable target for merging--but there is no relevant and verified content here. Drmies (talk) 05:19, 7 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't delete. I don't think this article should be deleted because its the only definition of this term on the internet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.0.69 (talk) 12:02, 12 September 2010 (UTC)  — 116.71.0.69 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Actually, that is a reason to delete it! We only put things on Wikipedia that can be verified/sourced to outside reliable sources. If it is nowhere else but here, it is WP:Original research and doesn't belong here. --MelanieN (talk) 16:51, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Basically original research, no citations or references provided or found. Agree with Herostratus that there could be an article about this subject (not sure that "play fighting" would be the best name for it) - but it would have to be based on published work (say on sociology, anthropology or animal behavior), rather than simply asserted as this article is. --MelanieN (talk) 16:51, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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