Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Turtle racing

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. GTBacchus^(talk) 07:15, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Turtle racing

Was tagged for speedy as nonsensical, but Google disagrees. Putting it here instead. Abstain. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:26, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - Verifiable sport that apparently some people are apparently really into. -GTBacchus^(talk) 11:15, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Article amounts to 'Turtle racing is when you race turtles', which is not encyclopedic. Some history and context might make it worthwhile, as in horse racing, but it does not seem likely that there's much out there to add. - squibix 18:42, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Clean up, expand, and keep - sport is actually more widespread than ostrich racing and possibly camel racing. B.Wind 18:43, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment, we don't actually have an article on ostrich racing, no more than we have an article on cheese racing, two, it's notable according to an open quote google, ie. turtle racing vs "turtle racing", where the first search simply looks for the number of websites containing both the words 'tutle' and 'racing', and the second search returns less hits than "hamster for president", does that mean hamster for president is our next new article?
• in fact I'd wager that most of the results of that search would be referring to something that is far from an organized 'sport', in fact, I'd like to see at least one source, that shows the existance of the organized sport of proffessional turtle racing, otherwise this is total nonsense, as the origional tag said--152.163.101.7 23:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • That's definitely not what "patent nonsense" in the deletion template means; it means something more like "completely incomprehensible." This article could have said "Turtle racing is when you race turtles" and it couldn't be speedied. Check out Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. -- SCZenz 07:03, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, I've heard of it before. Legitimate, but should be expanded.--Bkwillwm 21:40, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, I made the article with as much information as possible and I believe with a picture it will be a great wikipedia article. Chooserr 08:37, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This isn't an article, it's a tautology: almost everything outside the circular definition is unreferenced (and "old asian sport"?!?) or minor (a church in Cincinatti gets in trouble with aimal-rights types for staging a turtle race?!?). --Calton | Talk 01:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. OK, this article leaves much to be desired, but it isn't totally worthless. There are several non-obvious things said about turtle racing, such as the first-to-the-edge-of-the-circle type of race. Of course it is totally irrelevevant whether there is such a thing as "professional turtle racing"; to pick a ridiculous comparison, even the Olympics is amateur.--Pharos 05:29, 25 December 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.