Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Sri Lanka Ellaya

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was Blanked as a result of user already being indef blocked, no further action required. — xaosflux  Talk  01:30, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

User:Sri Lanka Ellaya


Patently unacceptable AFC submission that has been repeatedly submitted after being warned multiple times that we need a reliable source to accept. Since the editor has not gotten the clue that we have policies to follow the only appropriate thing to do is delete this waste of volunteer time Hasteur (talk) 20:59, 11 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep: This page actually intrigued me - the sheer amount of time spend creating it and the associated blogs would have been mind boggling if this was just an elaborate hoax. After some fairly extensive digging i actually managed to find some sources though that prove the subject seems to exist - the coverage itself is limited to a line or two in most parts though with a few exceptions:
 * 1996 newspaper article - mentions Elle halfway down the page.
 * Needs of Children and Adolescents : a Case Study of Sri Lanka - 1975 publication listed on Google books. Full text is not available but the snippets mention "Elle" as a sport several times.
 * Profile of a Government Agent in the 1980's: A Study on District Administrators in Action - 1990 publication on google books. Again a single snippet mention.
 * Prolympism: Sport Monoculture as Crisis and Opportunity 1996 journal publication. The google scholar previews is promising "For example, the Sri Lankan game of elle is similar to baseball except that the only scoring..." but the actual text itself is firmly locked behind a pay wall where i cannot access it.
 * Psychosocial Rehabilitation Of The War Affected Sri Lankan Combat Veterans - Newspaper article dated 2013, another one line mention of Elle somewhere far down.
 * The physical education curriculum in post independence Sri Lanka 2003 university theses and the most extensive information source i came across. The full PDF is availible online (Much obliged University of Wollongong) and mentiones Elle is a fair amount of detail in multiple locations in the document.
 * The limit online coverage itself may actually be attributed to a few circumstances surrounding the sport as well. One thing to note is that the sport itself seems specific to Sri Lanka, which has a population of only 20 million people. Add to this that the popularity of the sport seems to center in the pre-internet years and that Sri lanka isn't the most technically advanced nation and it feels less unusual that barely any coverage ended up seeping towards the internet. Also interesting are several mentions in the thesis linked above. According to that document the game is mostly popular in rural area's and it literally states "According to Administration Reports (1900-1948), elle and volleyball were not popular in elite schools". If this still holds true that would be another limiting factor in regards to the spread of the sport on the internet.


 * Due to the above i believe the article should be kept. The subject exists and while it may be especially difficult to source it the thesis and the journal might just create enough material for a somewhat more extensive article. At the very least there should be enough material for a stub article that is actually able to pass AFC. Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs ) 23:17, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Quick addition to the above - the "Keep" added here is specific for the articles subject as it was previously deleted as a fake article. I am not claiming that the page as currently written should be kept as-is, merely that the subject should. Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs ) 23:26, 11 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment There are copyvio issues with .  Unscintillating (talk) 00:55, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment There is an unsourced stub at Elle (sport), and there is a one-word mention at Sport in Sri Lanka.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:55, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Note that this deletion does not apply to the talk page.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:55, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per Excirial, and the fact that I doubt this would be a hoax if there are that many sources about it. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 02:34, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I've got no problems with keeping it if someone can provide the references to back it up. However, to be ignored 5 times requesting something to support its existence is a bit much!  I was unable to find anything other than one blog that referenced the sport.The Ukulele Dude - Aggie80 (talk) 20:54, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - Ther eis no doubt the sport exists. WE have the stub, Elle (sport) which needs expansion.  However, this particular editor, enthusiastic though he may be, does not have a good command of English. The material submitted by this editor, and the various other sockpuppet accounts have been shown to be, at least in part, copyright violations; he has not addressed this, or perhaps, simply doesn't understand.  The material under consideration here is almost certainly been copy-pasted from somewhere else as the level of English far exceeds what this editor is capable of  Note that this MFD is not about the notability of the sport of Elle, but whether this user page should be kept.  Given the almost 100% certainty of copying, we should not be keeping this material. -- Whpq (talk) 12:14, 13 April 2014 (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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.