Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Softball at the 1920 Summer Olympics


 * 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__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  00:10, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

Softball at the 1920 Summer Olympics

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Contested PROD. Article is a hoax created by a serial hoaxer IP account that managed to get through AfC with no sources actually verifying the event. The article is copied entirely from Baseball at the 1912 Summer Olympics, with the only changes being the year and the location - note that it still says that Sweden is the 'host' despite the game apparently being played in Belgium!! Softball didn't feature at the Olympics until 1996. Everything that this article discusses is about a baseball game 8 years prior that already has its own article so this one should just be deleted. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Olympics, Softball, Belgium, Sweden,  and United States of America.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:17, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment If this is also true, IP should have vandalism (and likely sockpuppet) case opened, with all their creations like this deleted as matter of course. Kingsif (talk) 18:43, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Obvious hoax, IP has been blocked. I am at a loss as to how this got through AfC, especially since it is an obvious copy of another page. JML1148 (Talk &#124; Contribs) 23:03, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete – I can't find a single source online that verifies the existence of such an event. Nythar  (💬-🍀) 23:07, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. Not only the article content but also the sources point towards baseball in 1912, not softball in 1920. /Julle (talk) 23:16, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment –, are you sure it's a good idea to keep a hoax article active for an entire week when its totally obvious that the article is a hoax? Doesn't this qualify for a speedy WP:SNOW deletion? Nythar  (💬-🍀) 23:38, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * It may do. My instinct has always been that the outcome of an AfD (speedy or otherwise) is more "final" than a CSD is - there's a reason a declined CSD can be taken to AfD, after all - so the logic of removing the CSD tag was more along the lines of letting AfD do whatever it wants to do, sort of thing. BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:41, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll wait. Nythar  (💬-🍀) 00:49, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Obvious hoax as per discussion. ULPS (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like a hoax. 〜 Festucalex  •  talk  06:30, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as hoax. Carrite (talk) 10:06, 27 May 2023 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.