Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cash and prizes

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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 of the nomination was delete. - brenneman {L} 01:46, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cash and prizes

Speedy tag removed twice by creator despite warning in edit history and user talk page. Trying hard not to bite the newbies, so warned about removal +WP:3RR. Anyway this article is nonsense, should be speedied, fails notability, is WP:NFT Fiddle Faddle 23:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Speedy Delete as per above. Dionyseus 23:16, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep This article does require major cleanup and addition, but should be kept due to the fact that it is an important phenomenon in our modern society. Kitia 23:17, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Er, scuse me? Every society had cash and prizes. But also WP:NOT a dictionary. Thsi cannot warrant an article on its own. Fiddle Faddle 23:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • keep I admit i dont know what im doing. But fiddle faddle, whats your point by saying that every society has cash and prizes? We need this article. Captain Harr 23:27, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
    • I mean that I know of no society that does not have this concept. Whether we need this article or not is one point. Whether the article has sufficient quality or not is another. The community will judge both aspects and reach a consensus. It is well worth your while strengthening the article in the interim period, and hoping that your article will prevail because it both asserts notability and is viewed as required. Fiddle Faddle 23:32, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy Delete per nom DavidHumphreysSPEAK TO MEABOUTTHE THINGS I MESSED UP 23:39, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete We may need a discussion of the phenomenon, but this article is not it. The article is not encyclopedic, at best it belongs in Wiktionary. But I don't think it even belongs there. Bejnar 23:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete How can anyone in good faith vote 'keep' for something like this? It's nonsense and useless. Arkyan 00:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • keepe W definitly need a disucsiion. Just fix the page instead of deleteing, sicne it will be remade regardless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captain Harr (talk • contribs)
    • One person, one opinion, please. It is customary not to offer the same opinion more than once, but comments (ie no emboldened keep/delete item in the comment) may be left in order to validate a prior opinion, or to contest another's opinion. Fiddle Faddle 06:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete But consider moving the content to a more inclusive article. --Ssbohio 03:40, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete nonsense attempt at a dicdef. --InShaneee 03:44, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • comment ~shakes head ~ Not only nonsense, this is fast turning into "escalated nonsense". References have now been given to Woolly Mammoths and Mayan Civilisation, but not regarding the points being made in the article. WP:NFT to the power of 2 I fear. WP:AGF is very strained at present, especially in view of the comment above by the creator "sicne it will be remade regardless" (sic). Fiddle Faddle 15:16, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • comment I meant like, a cash and prizes article is a good topic to write an article on. I certainly wouldnt remake it just out of spite. Captain Harr 15:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: This is an odd one, and no mistake. We already have decent articles on competitions/contests, lotteries, game shows and such, and the subject area of this article seems too ill-defined to pin down to solid concept - are we to include, say, bounties as a "prize"? Wikipedia already has an article on prizes (itself a borderline dicdef, but that's another matter), and after all, what is a cash award but a "prize" too? (How many competitions have we seen trumpting "huge cash prizes"?). As it stands, delete, as I can't see any content worth merging with prize. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matticus78 (talk • contribs)
  • Delete. Not enough info to support even a merge. --Satori Son 17:14, 11 July 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.