Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Podracing


 * 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The result was Withdrawn. — BradV 21:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Podracing

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This article about a fictitious game fails verifiability and notability. Appears to be entirely original research. — BradV 03:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions.   —Canley (talk) 03:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. I must say, I'm extremely surprised to see something of this caliber on AfD. I'm assuming this is a late April Fool's joke, but I'll go ahead anyway. :P  In terms of books alone... The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels, The Complete Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, and The Ultimate Visual Guide to Star Wars all give quite a bit about the topic.  The non-canon mentions and meaningful inclusions of pod racing number in the hundreds, and there's no way I could list them all here.  Going through some of the most notable of those,The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader delves into it quite a bit, as does the various incarnations of The Phantom Menace, Urchins and Podracing Tales.  Star Wars and Philosophy also discusses the topic.  Star Wars: Episode I Racer is an arcade game that is entirely devoted to the subject release for the N64, Dreamcast, PC, and GBC, which has reviews of its own.  Lego Star Wars, in its various incarnations, includes pod races.  The star wars site has an entire documentary on the subject.  Many fan sites and mainstream news sites mention podracing.  I could keep going on, but I don't really think it's necessary at this point. Celarnor Talk to me  07:02, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Also, we have a List of Star Wars podracers that were moved off the main article some time ago. Celarnor Talk to me 07:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep extremely notable sport in an extremelt notable francise, it has been also feature in many games such as lego starwars. Compared to other article on wikipedia this is EXTREMELY notable —Preceding unsigned comment added by Armanalp (talk • contribs) 15:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, I think the Phantom Menace article can cover this to the extent that it's encyclopedic. WillOakland (talk) 02:52, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you elaborate on your definition of "encyclopedic"? I've been looking into the term for some time. --Kiz o r  20:55, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong keep Article needs work and better sourcing but subject is clearly notable and plenty of secondary sourcing exists. - Dravecky (talk) 20:10, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn by nominator. Some good arguments have been made, and therefore this doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting deleted, nor should it. — BradV 21:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)


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