Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sportball

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. JForget 01:57, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sportball

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Initially WP:PROD 12th March. Contested 16th March. Writer now had ample time (1 month) from initial creation of the article to confirm notability by extending and providing reference material. Haruth (talk) 01:07, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:MADEUP. I can find lots of significant coverage for games, organisations, and programs called "Sportball" but none that match the description given in the article of "Sportball is a sport entirely invented by Informatics Students at the University of Edinburgh in 2010." - DustFormsWords (talk) 01:09, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. From the information given in the article, I can't find any information about this sport. If you ask me, the lack of content that could aid in identifying what this sport actually is almost (but not quite) makes this a candidate for an A1 speedy deletion for lack of content. -- Lear's Fool (talk | contribs) 01:37, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:MADEUP, as the article's only sentence makes abundantly clear. Glenfarclas (talk) 02:55, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, subsequent to them making it up, it COULD have gone on to be this year's surprise sporting craze. So the article text isn't the final word on the matter. But, of course, after making good faith searches we find it hasn't, so delete. - DustFormsWords (talk) 03:00, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Right, naturally; I was somewhat abbreviating my comment since I don't like to expend more words in explaining why an article should be deleted than the article has in total :) Glenfarclas (talk) 03:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Delete - There are multiple things wrong with this article, one; it contains only a single line of text and seccond, it isn't exactly encyclopedic information. Unless if meraciously more info was added along with some sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joker264 (talk • Joker264 (talk) 06:33, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and make it a WP:SNOW I usually enjoy these guaranteed-to-be-deleted articles because of the imaginative games that people make up, but this one says nothing more than "Sportball is a sport entirely invented by Informatics Students at the University of Edinburgh in 2010." Go do your psychology experiment elsewhere. Mandsford (talk) 12:30, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.