Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Baseketpolo

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 delete - Liberatore(T) 19:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Baseketpolo

not notable, not verifiable, likely invention or vanity Shenme 08:06, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_for_things_made_up_in_school_one_day. Feezo (Talk) 08:17, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. Does get google hits for being a valid game. But number of hits too small. --Soumyasch 08:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Please see notes below (added later). The only google hits are pages directly copied from Wikipedia (a known problem searching google) Shenme 08:55, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete. Hoax/prank. Some of the rules: "Players must wear bathing suits. No tops are allowed, however." "Goggles may not be worn. But you can wear googles." and "Sunglasses may only be worn when it is sunny." Bucketsofg 08:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

What drew my attention to this article was the word 'poop', present in the original article in the rule

3.02 No player shall intentionally discolor or damage the ball by rubbing it with soil, rosin, paraffin, licorice, sand-paper, emery-paper, poop, nitrogen, semen, billycones, or any other foreign substance.

Further examination brought up 'creative' phrases such as "a combination of water polo and standing", "... under jurisdiction of two or less referees.", "di-hydrogen monoxide", "2.14 ROAMING DOG RULE: ...", "Technicalities: 6.01 No clones allowed.", and a few others.

Following the external link to the "official site" finds a sort of blog, in reverse chronological order, at the top of which is "March 18, 2004: Site is closed.", and contains some number of notes about trying to get games together among a small number of people, but much else about completely divergent interests.

I can find no mentions of Baseketpolo in Google, other than those pages directly copied from Wikipedia. I can find numerous mentions of Basketpolo on pages for vacation destinations (none for Wisconsin, however), but no definitions of what that is.

User:Sweaty414 has since contributed to a small number of Wisconsin baseball articles, following the single day during which he created this article.

So after some investigation it appears to me this is purely a local invention, perhaps with a few attempts at implementation (note mentions of 2001, 2002, and 2005), but which has no known verifiable references and is otherwise not notable. Shenme 08:53, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete It's just a joke. --Ed (Edgar181) 11:49, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's a hoax based on Baseketball. Brian G. Crawford, the so-called "Nancy Grace of AfD" 16:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Oh, thank you! It bothered me somewhat, worrying that we might be losing a bit of our culture by deleting the article. However, pointing this out reassures me that the 'culture' will be preserved forever in its original form. :) (It also explains the timing of the 'invention') Shenme 18:33, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete; WP:NFT. --Kinu ^t/_c 17:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as prank. Brian beat me to it, but it's a less funny Baseketball derivative. ProhibitOnions 23:23, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, BJAODN fodder. MCB 23:55, 26 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.