Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elephantball

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The result was delete. --Coredesat 00:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elephantball

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no references found or provided supporting notability, therefore WP:MADEUP NeilN 00:10, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: NN something that was made up. - Rjd0060 00:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete Patent Nonsense Rackabello 00:20, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment: It is not nonsense (as WP's definition is "an unsalvageably incoherent page with no meaningful content". It isn't incoherent in the slightest). - Rjd0060 00:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment There are a few refs [1], [2] and [3]. Yngvarr 00:23, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, as refs have now emerged. Captain Zyrain 01:22, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment: the original suggestion that "no references = made up" is as inaccurate as, say, saying "not red = green". Just because no references are provided doesn't automatically mean that something has simply been made up. Grutness...wha? 00:45, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment: Note that MADEUP is the shortcut link wikipedia itself provides for Many editors, especially newer ones, are tempted to write articles about ideas which they or their friends have come up with, such as a new ball game invented in the park, a new word or phrase invented in the playground, or a new drinking game invented at a particularly memorable party. --NeilN 00:54, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment The three refs I dug up did not take very long to find and I stopped looking once I got three hits. The interesting thing to note is that they're geographically distant from each other: Canada, Finland and the UK. If this was something made up at a party, etc, I don't know if there would be such wide dispersion. Yngvarr 09:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Patent nonsense. Keb25 10:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

• Comment To reiterate Rjd0060's comment above, Wikipedia's definition of "patent nonsense" is an unsalvageably incoherent page with no meaningful content. This is quite readable, not really incoherent at all. Yngvarr 10:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:NFT. I don't seem to see Captain Zyrain's references either. Stifle (talk) 19:56, 15 October 2007 (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.