Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baby tossing

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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. --Bongwarrior (talk) 02:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Baby tossing

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I can find no reference to this "activity" outside of apocryphal, or pop-psych texts who offer this as exemplar of "how much better" child-rearing has become in modern times without so much as a single cite.

In addition, the fact that links to this article have been inserted in Sport make it more likely to be a WP:HOAX than not. Unless someone comes up with a reasonably reliable source about the topic (as opposed to one who has a paragraph or two reciting it as anecdote), this should be deleted as unverifiable original research. — Coren (talk) 16:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

  • lol delete I can't find any references either. It's most likely a hoax. Mønobi 17:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete as a very funny hoax. Malinaccier (talk) 19:29, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. It's not a hoax. READ the sources!! please. Are you saying that both of these academic textbooks are lying??--Sonjaaa (talk) 19:42, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
    • Well I have no way of accessing those book. Do you think, as the article creator, you could provide some links on the internet ? Mønobi 19:56, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
      • I have checked the references. They are (a) not "academic textbooks", and (b) not about the article topic. They both mention the purported activity (albeit only one of them refers to it as "baby tossing"), but only as anecdotes to "illustrate" how things have changed since those dark, primitive ages. The claims are not sourced, and not more credible than any other urban legend. — Coren (talk) 20:13, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
        • To be clearer, they are not academic textbooks related to the topic. One is a very introductory undergrad textbook, the other an historical commentary. — Coren (talk) 20:22, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete based on Coren's reference to the works. Yes, they're textbooks. No, they're not textbooks used in a history class. Sad to say, not everything your professor says, nor that you read in a textbook, is "true". Mandsford (talk) 20:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. I can find a few more references to some of the same incidents, and I have no problem believing this sort of thing happened (I suffered a dislocated shoulder when my father held me by the left arm and leg to spin me around like I was flying, something that parents my age or younger are horrified by). I'm not sure it's such a defined activity that it's worthy of an encyclopedia article, though it could be mentioned someplace else like swaddling. --Dhartung | Talk 21:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete hoaxalicious. Also, the idea that textbooks don't lie is ludicrous. JuJube (talk) 22:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete due to lack of reliable sources per Coren.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 13:06, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, as above. Axl (talk) 11:22, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete per all the strong reasons listed above. Although, in my heart, I uphold the Truthiness of the article. ;) Pastordavid (talk) 20:35, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete nonsensical. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 13:51, 25 January 2008 (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.