Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoe cricket


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 02:34, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Shoe cricket

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Contested ProD, one school's non notable variation of Cricket, if this variation has a wider reach than just Dunedin New Zealand, it can be covered in one sentence in the main article. Mister Senseless&trade; (Speak - Contributions) 14:04, 29 October 2008 (UTC) I made this article and can assure you that this sport is not made up and is played as a recreational activity in many Dunedin, and New Zealand schools. Please don't delete this article as it is useful in examining the sociology of sport and how games develop. The number of participants also warrants an article. As there has not been a great deal of writing about this particular activity, references are difficult to find. Any help on this article would be appreciated. I am myself a regular shoe cricket player and I can get other uses of wikipedia to verify my statements tomorrow. I must add once again that to delete this article would be to deprive a thriving sport recognition. And to the comment that stated that this article should be covered in one sentence in the main article,why does Kilikiti or ice cricket have their own articles, this sport is almost as popular and just as widespread as them, only lacking in formal leagues.
 * Delete. Sounds made up. McWomble (talk) 14:08, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. A shoe is used in place of a cricket bat?  Those kids must have big feet.  Mandsford (talk) 15:29, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete as per McWomble. Anti  venin  17:44, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete by above and WP:N. Planninefromouterspace (talk) 22:48, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * As you say, "there has not been a great deal of writing about this particular activity". I think that pretty well sums up why nobody else takes this seriously.  Mandsford (talk) 12:41, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

My name is John Dominick and i am from the South African city of Cape Town and at my school we have a competition simalar to this game that has been writen about in this article, we play cricket using a shoe and a tennis ball and we also play against other schools. last year we came first in the inter school competion.
 * Find a source then. In googling the phrase "shoe cricket", it returns several hundred hits, but very few of them pertain to a game.  It appears that in some places, particularly in the southern hemisphere, school kids bat a tennis ball with a shoe at recess and call it shoe cricket.  If you want to gain notability, call a local reporter at the Otago Daily Times, the newspaper for Dunedin, New Zealand ([www.odt.co.nz]) Mandsford (talk) 23:31, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

I am from west otago and at my school we play this game. We have a school competion.in the local newspaper there was an article about this game and how it is taking off all over the country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.152.99.82 (talk) 07:08, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That would be a good start. I couldn't find an article, but www.odt.co.nz is the website for the local newspaper.  Mandsford (talk) 13:37, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

No. The local news paper for WEST otago is The Newslink —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.152.99.82 (talk) 21:22, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:25, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions.   -- Raven1977 (talk) 20:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not for something made up one day. -- Mattinbgn\talk 20:30, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article says: "Shoe Cricket is a recreational sport played mainly in the New Zealand city of Dunedin." If it's true that it's mainly played in a single smallish city then it doesn't strike me as being notable. JH (talk page) 21:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


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