Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferret legging

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The result of the debate was speedy keep: withdrawn by nominee. I stand corrected. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 22:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ferret legging

Hoax. Can be traced back to this humorous article from Harper's Magazine. I suggest we delete unless and until someone finds a more authoritative reference. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 09:16, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - but make clear that it is an urban legend. Why quote Harper's from 1995 when the article itself cites Outside Magazine from 1983? I thought the activity was true but after a quick bit of Googling, I have decided otherwise. But it is sufficiently widespread as a legend to justify an article. -- RHaworth 11:17, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I've read this story, and if it's a hoax, it's an awfully elaborate one: see this book, and note especially the title (ISBN 0812991524, if you want to search elsewhere). --Calton | Talk 12:41, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Possibly a hoax although referenced in a book but possibly not [1]. We need to document the part of the human race that sends up rockets as well as the part that puts firecrackers up their noses. - Peripitus 12:52, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Not sure whether it's a hoax or not, cuz I hardly even knew about it till now, but at least it's a sport, fictional or nonfictional. - Cat's Tuxedo 7:57 AM, 27 May 2006
• Keep --Terence Ong 15:49, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
• keep not only is this not a hoax. or urban legend (I have seen competitions televised a couple of times on the bbc). but it does not originate from a 1995 article in harpers magazine. the first time I saw ferret legging was in the mid sixties. Sadly wikipedia in its reliance on google for references is unlikely to find any much before the nineties, because even the BBC didnt get its online act together much before the end of that decade. this is an activity that is pretty much limited to rural shows and fetes as such it probably wont ever be authoritatively documented. DavidP

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.