Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Mornington Crescent Championship

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Sjakkalle 11:44, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Mornington Crescent Championship
Wikipedia is not a game server. This is a neat idea community-building, de-stressing idea, but that can and should happen on a fun-and-games WikiCity. The Wikipedia: namespace is intended for instructions, advice, policy, and related discussions. Unrelated items simply become clutter here. -- Beland 03:01, 19 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. – ugen64 03:10, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, of course. Wikipedia need not be all business all the time. &mdash; Dan | Talk 03:11, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. As pointed out above, we do have the department of fun. Seems harmless to me. ESkog 03:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and don't be such a spoilsport. -- AlexR 03:33, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agreed with AlexR. Linuxbeak | Desk 03:33, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I respect Beland's principles, but I think a little clutter is okay. FreplySpang (talk) 03:40, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, wikipedia namespace is not an encyclopedia. Gmaxwell 03:43, 19 May 2005 (UTC) Delete, now that I realize that it's not really a game but rather a nonsense spewing contest. :( --Gmaxwell 16:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The deletion isn't really supported by anything, so I don't really think a reason is needed. Demi T/C 03:54, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sholtar 04:25, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
 * East Finchley. (erm... keep) Grutness...  wha?  04:37, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is part of WP:FUN, part of the community-building programs at Wikipedia. Beland, if you have an issue with this, please contribute to the relative talk pages, not VFD. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 04:52, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what this is. Gazpacho 05:11, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't worry - it doesn't take long to learn. The rules are pretty straightforward. Totteridge and Whetstone. See Mornington Crescent (game). Grutness...  wha?  07:14, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * York Road (now closed)--Lady Constance 07:44, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. From the top of the Community Portal - "Together we are building an encyclopedia and a wiki community." --the wub (talk) 08:23, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Bank. Joe D (t) 11:07, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * British Museum --Lady Constance 14:32, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Sneaky backlooping traverse to Monument. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 14:38, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Mornington Crescent - (possibly cheating but I prefer to call it "trumping"). Filiocht | Blarneyman 14:44, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you allowed diagonals when trumping? Joe D (t) 16:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but not NE to SW. Filiocht | Blarneyman 07:19, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Meta - Keep the project space on Wikipedia for the encyclopedia project and move community-building activities to Meta. Besides, maybe some members from other project might want to get involved. -- Netoholic @ 15:45, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
 * Meta is miles up the Piccadilly! Evidently a novice. Slapped you up a Perpendicular Zonal Gambit all the way to Elephant and Castle. 81.153.154.161 15:50, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm keeping myself out of the game by comparing it to Double Fanucci. User:Luigi30 (&Upsilon;&sigma;&eta;&rho; &tau;&alpha;&lambda;&kappa; &#923;&#965;&#951;&#947;&#951;&#923;) 16:39, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't usually play to this kind of opening (I'm more of a king's pawn man) but as you all seem to be in knip at the moment, I'll make a cautious shunt into Shepherd's Bush (Hammersmith and City Line) and Keep (with the Travelcard option, of course) --Tony Sidaway|Talk 17:21, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * 76th Street, using the "no one will get the joke" rule. --SPUI (talk) 18:20, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and Ealing Broadway. I'm sure that's allowed if we're playing Travelcard. DJ Clayworth 21:38, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I seem to be in prig. A wheeltapper's variant will take me to Swiss Cottage, though. (this is getting silly) Grutness...  wha?  01:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The controversial 1945 Mornington Crescent Final Ruling (paragraph 13.b46) states that this can only be deleted in even number years (when the last player skipped Baron's Court and went strait to Hammersmith). Try again next year. keep. Oh, and South Kensington. Sabine's Sunbird 02:01, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * SPUI is using an entirely illegal move according to the Second Amendment to the Proceedings of the 1998 Overseas MC conference. The only permissible move under those circumstances is The Tunnel Between Park Street and Downtown Crossing, though before the Second Amendment Scollay Under would have been an allowable move under the Blue Line Clause (removed because of an ambiguity in paragraph 3 -- look it up). Haikupoet 03:12, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I forgot: Keep on general principle, and Potsdamer Platz. If anyone's got a problem with that I'm going to cite the Third Amendment to the OSMCC Proceedings. Haikupoet 03:14, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * You're not permitted to cite amendments that you voted against. Uncle G 08:37, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
 * I beg to differ. That may be the case in Humberside rules (or whatever strange variant of the rulebook you're using) but it's explicitly permitted under every other ruleset I've seen. In any case the "If you've got it flaunt it" rule from the Beverly Hills conference in 2003 supersedes all other rulings on the matter. The Commission said so. Haikupoet 15:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nonetheless, the reciprocal coupling restriction applies. Uncle G 17:13, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
 * Winter Street Concourse is banned due to its shady past. Try Dudley. --SPUI (talk) 13:45, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Dollis Hill. Now you have a problem, because under the Jubilee Extension Rule (3rd revision, wheelchair access) straddles are disallowed and the only way out of the loop is to speedy delete this discussion page so that the next player is shunted back up the line to WP:VFU. Ha! Uncle G 08:37, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
 * Might I suggest moving this vfd debate to BJAODN? Or would you prefer a reverse triple-feeder slide (as played, you will recall, by Mexican grand-master Diego Catahualpa at the 1997 World Championships), which should get us to...hmm... High Barnet? Grutness...  wha?  10:54, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * In response to this question, all I can say is I'm sorry, I haven't a clue. Filiocht | Blarneyman 11:02, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep [Using the standard non-linear cross-over exemption!] Brookie: A collector of little brown things 15:39, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - and while this 'debate' looks like it belongs in BJAODN, I think heading there right now would place me in knip, so following Haikupoet, I move Bobigny Pablo Picasso.
 * Dollis Hill. &#9786; Uncle G 17:13, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
 * Oh no! Not the Dollis Hill loop, Trafalgar Square. Strong keep, all wiki and no play makes Rje a dull boy, all wiki... Rje 18:05, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Boneheads - you can't call Dollis Hill here - the 4th protocol forbids it! Keep! InTheFullnessOfTime 19:56, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with weaker self-consensus then the chess one, simply as this seems stupid to me. Hedley 21:01, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, and all the Poke/Star Wars/*cruft seems insensibly stupid to me, but nobody's VFDing it all. --FCYTravis 23:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm citing the Governmental Imbecility Codicil in order to make a backwards maximum aerial to El Cerrito del Norte - and that counts as a keep --FCYTravis 23:24, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Mile End, thus lifting me out of prig... but into knip. &mdash; Trilobite (Talk) 02:25, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
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