Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quidditch World Cup

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 of the debate was REDIRECT to Quidditch. -Splash^talk 20:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quidditch World Cup

Totally useless except for select Harry Potter maniacs who honestly have nothing better to do than to look into the history of a fictitious event of a magical sport from some children's book. Seriously, why isn't "Battle of Honour" from Romance of the Three Kingdoms the novel an article? JK Rowling's idea of the world cup probably came up after watching football's world cup, and getting a rush of feeling that it should be created for Quidditch too. Delete. Colipon+(T) 06:29, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Delete However, why was the page for it blanked? Schizombie 06:44, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom.--み使い Mitsukai 07:29, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to either Quidditch (this topic should be treated there, at best) or Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup (the video game)... take your pick. This seems like a reasonable search phrase, so it's worth the cheap-and-easy. An article about this one event seems like Pottercruft, however. --Kinu ^t/_c 07:43, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Quidditch. While you're there, merge information into the "Fictional History" section, eliminate the speculation on the dating error. -- Saberwyn 08:12, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Quidditch or the Goblet of Fire. Not that I've read them, you understand, it's for my kids... Just zis Guy you know? 14:46, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Quidditch. Should definitely be redirected. Guy: Well I have read them and their great. But in my defense, when I first began reading the series I was a child around Harry's age. --Jelligraze 14:59, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

• The autograph-hunter's invariable protestation: "it's for my wife/kids/friend/mother/whatever". Of course I've read them all multiple times! How can I not, with two school-age sons? Just zis Guy you know? 18:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Quidditch. --Terence Ong 15:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect per Saberwyn -- Waggers 22:00, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
• Strong redirect to Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup which should dab back to Quidditch anyway. This is also the common name of a (terrible!) real-life video game. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
• A simple redirect to Quidditch is all thats needed. I think an aggressive call for deletion is a bit over the top, as is the uncalled for baiting of Harry Potter Fans which somewhat lacks civility. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 18:15, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Quidditch. --Optichan 18:40, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Quidditch, then merge Quidditch into Harry Potter, redirect Quidditch to Harry Potter and fix the double redirect for Quidditch World Cup to point to Harry Potter. – Doug Bell ^{talk•contrib} 18:46, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect. I'd happily support User:Doug Bell's suggestion if he's willing to do it! --kingboyk 19:44, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

This AfD is for Quidditch World Cup not for the main Quidditch article, so any such suggestions about merging articles, that are not part of this AfD process, should be done on the relevant articles talk page as per normal Wiki procedures. Death Eater Dan (Muahaha) 23:40, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, important event in the Goblet of Fire book. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:56, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• Actually I think the Quidditch World Cup was only put in the GoF for two reasons: 1. There is no other Quidditch match in GoF thanks to the Triwizard Tournament, 2. It allows the reappearance of the dark mark, which unites Voldemort with his Deatheaters, in an eerie situation for all to see which inevitably creates a very dramatic scene of chaos. From what I can tell the Quidditch World Cup was equivalent (in length & importance to the story) to that of any other Quidditch game played in the other HP novels. Granted in the HP world it is a very important event, but in the story itself it equates to all other Quidditch events. --Jelligraze 16:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Quidditch — maybe make a new section — and dablink to Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup. Hermione1980 23:58, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Quidditch Dalf | Talk 03:01, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Merge anything useful (there doesn't seem to be much) and redirect to Quidditch. --Deathphoenix 04:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Quidditch, per WP:CRUFT. Stifle 11:52, 1 March 2006 (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 article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.