Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Drinking Rules

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. — Scientizzle 15:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] International Drinking Rules

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The article has been tagged for sourcing since July 2007, but the only source cited is an unreliable website which lists user-submitted drinking games (insufficient editorial oversight). There is no proof of notability, the article consists of original research, and is an indiscriminate collection of information. A Google search turned up plenty of hits, but nothing that amounted to a reliable source. Instead, the coverage consists of a bunch of blogs, forums, personal websites, etc., many of which mirror each other's contents. There are doubtless thousands of drinking games, variations, and "house rules," the vast majority of which are not notable. There is no proof that this game is any different from the countless others in notability, despite its "international" designation. Until such proof turns up (which seems very unlikely), this article ought to be deleted. Nomination follows a deprod. Nick Graves (talk) 21:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

• Redirect to drinking game - trivial coverage. PhilKnight (talk) 21:34, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. Nothing says "nerd" like having to look for a drinking game on the internet. Mandsford (talk) 22:24, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep The most important article on Wikipedia. 81.149.250.228 (talk) 10:13, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. My heart says because the sort of people who follow such "rules" are guaranteed to ruin the atmosphere of any pub that they go in, so we shouldn't do anything to encourage them. My head says because this article fails all sorts of Wikipedia policies and guidelines, such as verifiability, original research and notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:N, WP:V, WP:OR, and indeed WP:BEANS. Sheffield Steel^talk_stalk 17:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep - Are you actually hoping for a New York Times article on a drinking game? Thousands of hits on blogs etc (ie, widespread recognition of these "rules") is the best indication of notability you're going to get for a non-newsworthy subject like this (which is very different from non-notable). Of course the sites mirror content - they're rules, and are therefore largely the same. Sure, it needs serious work and a lot of culling, but that's no reason to delete the entire article.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 15:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. It doesn't have to be covered in the NYT. Any reliable source reporting on the game would be a step in the right direction. Did you find any? Without any such coverage, it's not notable. Nick Graves (talk) 22:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
    • It's not the kind of thing that some journalist is going to write an article on, however it is demonstrably a widespread game. I remind you that WP:Notability is a guideline only - this is an incidence where it should be ignored.--Yeti Hunter (talk) 12:33, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete as per WP:OR. BigDunc (talk) 17:46, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete N, OR, V ukexpat (talk) 14:25, 13 April 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.