Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OkayBlowhards

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:16, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] OkayBlowhards

Internet Fantasy Football league, started in 2003. 3 google hits (69 with similar hits included), so probably not yet notable enough. Thue | talk 20:41, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as notability is not established. Mr Bound 20:50, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as notability is firmly established. Wikipedia should encourage the growth of positive-minded internet communities, even as subsets of larger communities. cereffusion May, 26, 2005
  • Wikipedia is not a soapbox, and as such, should not "encourage the growth" of anything but itself. To do so would be POV. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 22:00, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
    • Soapbox? Nobody is preaching anything, buster. In fact, articles about a fantasy football league are usually devoid of any sort of righteousness. cereffusion
      • Uh, you, not the article, are advocating a position by saying: "Wikipedia should encourage the growth of positive-minded internet communities". Why should it? Why is this a reason to keep the article? AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 22:15, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
        • It's a suggestion. And I meant that Wikipedia's uniqueness allows for articles relating to cyber-communities, i.e. the type of people that understand the importance and beauty of such endeavors. cereffusion
        • It seems like a compromise is being worked out at Okayplayer. cereffusion
• Delete. Even if this is one of the four million greatest fantasy sports leagues around, which it might be, is anyone ever going to go to an encyclopaedia to look it up? Not notable, not encyclopaedic. Frjwoolley 21:57, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
  • The thousands of members of Okayplayer.com might argue otherwise. cereffusion
    • How can twelve teams have thousands of members? RickK 23:05, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
      • Hey. You love "encyclopedic" so much. Learn to use it. okayplayer
        • So if this league is so important to the thousands of members of okayplayer, why isn't there a link to it from the okayplaer front page? RickK 23:52, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable. AиDя01DTALKEMAIL 22:00, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. An article about fantasy football in general is encylopedic. An article about a particular league is not. RickK 23:04, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • Unless it's the very first one, or all its members are ex-Presidents of the U.S., or something like that. Frjwoolley 23:48, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not encyclopedic. --Carnildo 23:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - just a fantasy football league with a boring name. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:29, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - This is not Wikifantasyfootballpedia. --FCYTravis 05:16, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable, not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 05:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as nn. Karol 05:40, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Falls below the bar of notability. jni 10:46, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable. JamesBurns 11:59, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for lack of notability. However, if online fantasy football leagues becomes worthy of a list, then list OkayBlowhards on there. Nestea 17:29, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Okayplayer, no redirect. --FuriousFreddy 19:26, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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