Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Internet wrestling community

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was No consensus, so keep --Allen3 ^talk July 5, 2005 00:29 (UTC)

[edit] Internet wrestling community

Souds like most internet communities - unencyclopedic, delete --nixie 04:51, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as site vanity. Site is nn. Jamyskis Whisper, Contribs 06:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep and cleanup - notable term in professional wrestling. Proto 09:29, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete advertising for a non notable website. JamesBurns 10:17, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Comment - what website? The Internet Wrestling Community refers to all 'smart' wrestling fans on the internet. Please read the article. Proto 10:58, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Merge with Smark (professional wrestling). McPhail 10:55, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per McPhail--Scimitar 13:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete CDC (talk) 21:58, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete --GrandCru 23:50, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I'm almost ashamed to admit knowing this, but the term is notable and generic among wrestling fans. A redirect to Smark would NOT be in order, because smarks are not necessarily internet-aware. Xoloz 04:01, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Internet wrestling community shouldn't be confused with e-wrestling. Hedley 18:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep per Xoloz. — Phil Welch 20:04, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This denotes a notable section of the wrestling fanbase. It is also not advertising for any particular site or sites, unlike what several other people have said (most likely without reading the article in question). --HBK 23:12, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. This is not talking about any particular site(s), but rather a Net-aware portion of the overall professional wrestling fanbase. I second Xoloz' comment about smarks not necessarily being Net-aware. Dale Arnett 28 June 2005 07:55 (UTC)
• Merge with Smark (professional wrestling). "Internet Wrestling Community" is indeed a phrase often used in wrestling to refer to a distinct fan group. Although I suppose not literally every "smark" is internet-aware, it's really hard to imagine there are many who are not, given that the 'Net is both where you would get the news and where you would discuss it, these days. Practically speaking, it's hard to imagine any significant difference between the content of the two entries. Dcarrano 19:52, 28 June 2005

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