Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Speedball (sport)2

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 of the debate was KEEP. Robert ^{T | @ | C} 15:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedball (sport)

NN sport invented by teachers at a high school in Arizona. --howcheng [ talk • contribs • web ] 22:08, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom - and I dispute the game's originality too. - Just zis Guy, you know? 22:12, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep We had to play this 'sport' in my high school, and I grew up in Upstate New York. I suspect that many high schools in between had to as well. --Bletch 13:16, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• In which case it probably wasn't invented by the people claimed in the article. Verification, anyone? - Just zis Guy, you know? 13:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• Just to add more information; I graduated high school in 1994, so this has been around for at least 14+ years. Maybe this is original research, but we've always suspected that this was a sport featured in some hypothetical magazine for gym teachers. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the author of this article went to the school where this sport originated. But then again, we suspected that it was our gym teachers that came up with the thing. --Bletch 18:55, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

I played this is the late 60's early 70's in either England or Scotland. I don't think it was in school so I suspect it was in the Boy Scouts. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 12:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

• Relisting. --Woohookitty^{(cat scratches)} 12:05, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It seems the this sport was older than expected: at least according to this page, it originates in the 1920s. I have added this and other links to the page. I however agree with the nominator that the original version of the article made this sport look like something invented by two gym teachers in a small school. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 15:37, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep--it's the sports equivalent of a conlang, but closer to Esperanto than "some random thing a college student came up with". Meelar (talk) 16:00, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep given its history and it seems to have been played reasonably frequently. Capitalistroadster 17:35, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Reasonably notable. Deryck C. 09:45, 7 November 2005 (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.