Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Mall Challenge


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The result was   - Speedy Deleted - G3 (vandalism/obvious misinformation) seems to fit well here - Peripitus (Talk) 07:16, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

The Mall Challenge

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Easily fails WP:MADEUP; see "The Mall Challenge was invented by Adam Clash, Julian Mellor and Xavier Halliwell on the 5th of December, 2008". A prod was deleted (dear lord why don't we have a CSD tag for these things that doesn't rely on IAR?) so I've brought it here; enjoy. Ironholds (talk) 04:01, 16 December 2008 (UTC) We are from Australia, its 16:13 on the 16th of December 2008, check your time zones before saying it matters. I assume the user specifying 'our region' means Canberra. A 'Mall' is just a Shopping centre, we've simply adopted it as a generic term for this type of eating competition.
 * Strong delete - Made up, non notable and non verifiable. (WP:MADEUP, WP:V, WP:RS) &mdash; neuro(talk) 04:04, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong delete - "Mall Challenge Records" for a day from now (Dec 16)? "was conducted from the 15th of December to the 19th of December 2008" ... future reporting? Hoax and therefore non-notable. -- moe.RON   Let's talk  04:12, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ehh, not necessarily. It was done in austraaaalia, mind you, and they're already a day ahead of the rest of us northern hemisphere people. Ironholds (talk) 04:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * delete Lacks reliable and independent sources to establish notability. Edison (talk) 04:18, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * keep I can verify that the events described are factual, accurate and notable for our region, and am a witness to parts of the challenge. Incidentally, the 16th of December is almost over, and that has nothing to do with being in the southern hemisphere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.91.8.11 (talk) 04:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * yes it does; in the northern hemisphere it is the early morning of the sixteenth. Secondly; notable "for our region"; could you clarify that? Do you mean the mall, your small knot of friends, your town, what? Ironholds (talk) 05:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly my point. I was replying to Moeron's comment that the 16th was in the future; to him (most likely a US/UK/CA editor) it is early morning of the sixteenth; to australians it is the late afternoon. Please see WP:MADEUP; your article appears to fall under this and as such is not a valid article for Wikipedia. Ironholds (talk) 05:17, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't care when this is/was, it's not encyclopedic. It's not notable. It's not anything. Drmies (talk) 06:35, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete per WP:SNOW, WP:NOT, WP:MADEUP, WP:NOTE, etc. &eta;oian   &Dagger;orever &eta;ew &Dagger;rontiers  06:39, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:NFT should really have its own CSD tag. - Richard Cavell (talk) 07:43, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Should be speedied, but unfortunately no WP:MADEUP speedy criteria exist. It is not notable, if it is "notable in the region" then regional newspaper/etc. sources should be provided to demonstrate notability.  Factuality is not a concern, notability is, which this clearly lacks.  Theseeker4 (talk) 16:06, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Blatant WP:MADEUP. --Amwestover (talk|contrib) 23:16, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:MADEUP is not a speedy criteria. Ironholds (talk) 23:25, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but it should be, along with WP:HOAX. It'd save people a lotta time. --Amwestover (talk|contrib) 23:48, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Should be and is are different things, however. Wikipedia has strict guidelines and policies on what constitutes other CSD categories; WP:NONSENSE, for example. Turning WP:MADEUP into a CSD category would cause all sorts of problems by making the deletion largely subjective rather than objective. Ironholds (talk) 00:00, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Moderately Hasty Delete In my opinion, the WP:MADEUP category is severly outdated and belongs either in the DSA, CSD or FLP categories, although probably most suitable to DSA. This articles seems applicable to WP:RAIN, WP:ORNOT besides obviously WP:MADEUP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.91.8.11 (talk) 04:20, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  -- Mattinbgn\talk 06:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, as a Canberra resident and occassional visitor of the Belconnen Mall, I suspect this is entirely made up.--Grahame (talk) 06:27, 17 December 2008 (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.