Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X-pong

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The result was delete. Coredesat 03:21, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] X-pong

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Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day. SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

• Keep - X-Pong is in the same vein as Beer Pong and Flip Cup, both drinking games invented at universities with Wikipedia pages. The game Humans vs. Zombies was invented at a university and has less history than X-Pong. The game has been played all over the country and is far from nonsense. Keeping this Wikipedia page will foster knowledge of the game for anyone interested, thereby furthering Wikipedia as a source of public information. Jcheifet (talk) 00:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - The game is legitimite. I've seen it played in many different settings, its not just a game between a group of friends. It has a serious history and clearly defined rules. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.42.31.94 (talk) 17:43, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - This is a legitimate game! Much in the same respects of a "legitimate" drinking game like Beer Pong. It has no small following, is played by many people at many schools (PSU, Pitt, U Akron, Kent State just to name a few) and has clearly written and legitimate rules. Must keep as outside sources are found and will grow with exposure on site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.190.228.183 (talk) 17:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom.   jj137 (Talk) 03:47, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, per nom --Dawn bard (talk) 03:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete; it's not quite patent nonsense, but it was certainly seen brushing up against patent nonsense at the mall. SparsityProblem (talk) 03:56, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Snigbrook (talk) 04:05, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Delete - Per nom, just read the article and it says in the article that it was made up in school. Tiptoety (talk) 04:58, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep - x-pong is a legitimate game, i have played it. it has a history, a following, and clearly outlined rules. it even has its own website which i have visited before. its been up for at least a few months i think. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.39.152.175 (talk) 06:54, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - no reliable sources -- Whpq (talk) 13:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - just a local game, invented at a university. No relevance. --ChrisHH-de (talk) 15:02, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - completely non-notable game invented by someone one day. No encyclopaedic value. Ben W Bell talk 14:20, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - This is by far the most addicting collegiate drinking game ever invented. There is a website completely dedicated to its roots and existence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tomklingebiel (talk • contribs) 14:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
• — Tomklingebiel (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
• Keep - my buddies and i used to play x-pong all the time at syracuse 3 or 4 years ago, although with slightly different rules. just yesterday we were talking about it and i searched wiki to explain the game to my friend, and found this article. then i see people want it deleted, which i dont understand. as user Jcheifet said above, this article fosters knowledge of the game, which as i said is a real game. if i had to guess i would've said its been around for longer than 6 years, but it's interesting to see the actual history of x-pong. just because you may not have heard of it doesn't mean it's not a real game. the article says it has been played at many universities, yet it didn't list syracuse. imagine how many other colleges it is played at that we don't even know about! it deserves an article as much as any other drinking game. i think we may play this weekend! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.192.34.51 (talk) 19:58, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

  Comment. No one is doubting the "realness" of the game. However, we do doubt the notability of it, as no reliable third party sources have written about the topic. SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:17, 28 November 2007 (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.