Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smashball (Sport)

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The result was delete. Courcelles 23:52, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Smashball (Sport)

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This article doesn't make a claim to notability and actually asserts its insignificance. "Smashball is a little known sport" Ryan Vesey contribs 15:44, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per nom; gsearch indicates that it's of such local application that it's not notable in terms of significant coverage in independent sources. asnac (talk) 15:54, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 16:47, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The sport is not covered by news sources at all. Together with Asnac's comments above about an unsuccessful attempt to find independent sources, I think we can safely smash this one out of the park. I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} 18:33, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Actually, the article does contain one reliable source in the form of a weekly community newspaper article outlining how a dad built a smashball court on a vacant lot and has been asked to tear it down for violating a variety of regulations including building things on somebody else's property. However, that alone is insufficient to demonstrate notability although it does put this article well above other WP:MADEUP articles in terms of sourcing. -- Whpq (talk) 16:37, 15 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The sport does not seemm notable yet, and there is a lack of sources backing any notability (or lack thereof) that it has. Backtable _{Speak to me}^{concerning my deeds.} 02:45, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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