Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chadminton

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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. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:28, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chadminton

Chadminton (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Unsourced article about a sport whose notability is unclear. Prod was contested on the grounds that other sports have their own article without being specific about which ones.

  • Delete. Blanchardb-Me•MyEars•MyMouth-timed 21:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Oh, that's imaginative-- Chadminton instead of badminton. Bring it back when it's on ESPN8, "the Ocho" Mandsford (talk) 21:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep I would say keep, it is still a sport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Warrior4321 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Sport is not the subject of any reliable sources; most hits, oddly, are for MySpace. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 22:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete As unreferenced original research. Sounds like a fun game, but popularity on one college campus and no references adds up to a failure on notability.Beeblbrox (talk) 01:51, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - Per nom--NAHID 07:39, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - no reliable sources to indicate notability. -- Whpq (talk) 14:38, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • "Strong Keep" I play the sport, it's real. The game is great. It's just like every other sport with rules, fans, awards, teams, etc. Isn't wikipedia about providing information you can't find anywhere else? --Craziesportsgirl (talk) 07:37, 20 February 2008 (UTC)— Craziesportsgirl (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • "Isn't wikipedia about providing information you can't find anywhere else?" In a nutshell, no it isn't ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:59, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  • delete I can't find a single reliable source talking about this sport at all. JoshuaZ (talk) 00:28, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, yet another unknown and made-up sport. See WP:NFT. NawlinWiki (talk) 15:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, Can't believe it wasn't a speedy. Paste (talk) 17:26, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
  • "Strong Keep" I can assure you that while there isn't much information to be found online, chadminton has been around for years. It's tough to get credible sources to back something that's based on a game made up to be a cheap alternative to lacrosse and eventually became more. It is incredibly difficult to get anyone to take it seriously, so I implore you to consider giving chadminton a chance. I will do whatever it takes to make sure that the information is accurate, up to date, and anything else that people want or need to see to justify it's existence on Wikipedia. I understand the need to keep false and satirical articles off of this site, but this is real. Instead of being another obstacle on the bumpy road to becoming legitimate, can the Wikipedia community find it in their hearts to let us stick around? --Chadminton17 (talk) 18:55, 22 February 2008 (UTC)— Chadminton17 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • So your goal is to promote the sport? Sorry, but you have misunderstood the purpose of Wikipedia. The sport is real? I believe that. But before writing an article in Wikipedia about it, you might want to take a look at WP:SCRABBLE. --Blanchardb-Me•MyEars•MyMouth-timed 20:48, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for that link, that goes right to the heart of this one. Nobody is saying this is a hoax, just that, as Chadmiton 17s above remark seems to indicate, it is not widely known. When Chadmiton makes it up that "bumpy road to becoming legitimate" it will be time for a Wikipedia article. Beeblbrox (talk) 06:29, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
As far as the WP:SCRABBLE policy goes, this is not a "new, great thing you or your friends just thought up". It has been developing for more than two years, and is in the process of being established as a club sport at Ohio State University. And as for publishing things on a personal website, it has been done. This page is not for promoting chadminton, but just as a vehicle for information. Check [[1]] --Chadminton17 (talk) 22:49, 23 February 2008 (UTC)— Chadminton17 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
  • Strong Delete. I could just as easily make a sport, popularize it in my school, and claim it's significant enough. However, a simple Google search returns nothing but user pages and the page of the school that came up with it. Thus, delete. <3 bunny 22:54, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I think you severely underestimate the work going into to "popularizing" a sport. Not that it's relevant to this argument anyway. In fact it's just as hard to convince people to play a new sport as it is to convince people to let you have a wikipedia article. Chadminton17 (talk) 23:18, 23 February 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.