Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gunnelbobbing

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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. Maxim(talk) 01:42, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gunnelbobbing

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

While not quite a thing made up in school on day, with a mighty 3 Ghits, I don't see how this one's notable (no press coverage of any kind that I can see), and I'm unable to see any way this article can be salvaged. The "reference" is about BASE jumping, not this — iridescent (talk to me!) 23:01, 9 September 2007 (UTC):

  • Keep, needs serious work but plenty under the more common "gunnel bobbing" which is referenced over at Canoeing as 'gunnel-bobbed'. – Zedla 23:25, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment You're absolutely right and I'm ashamed to admit, it didn't occur to me to split the words. Trying the alternate spelling of Gunwale bobbing shows we already have this as a subsection of "Canoe", so I'm going to leave this AfD open to get a consensus of whether to delete this as a content fork & redirect, or leave it as a separate article. At the moment I still think the separate article needs so much work it might be easier to wipe it out & start again (I don't volunteer to do this, as I know nothing about the subject) — iridescent (talk to me!) 23:33, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete did some digging to see if it could be saved, the ref is fake per my notes on the the talk page. There are a few sentences in the first paragraph that could be merged into Canoeing (or could form a very bare stand alone article) but the rest of it is a hoax – Zedla 00:10, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge anything useful from the article into Canoe. Hal peridol 00:36, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as likely hoax. -- Rob C. alias Alarob 01:05, 15 September 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.