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The result of the debate was Delete. --Ryan Delaney talk 05:24, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable, obscure NeilN 17:53, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Sounds like one of the games from Takeshi's Castle. Pburka 18:52, September 11, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, obviously. TheMadBaron 19:40, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete When I was in high school, a friend created a game called "Baw, Waw, Hand" which involved throwing a ball, bouncing it off a wall, and catching it with his hand. Should it have an article? Wikipedia is fast becoming a dumping ground for all the garbage on the internet. --DavidConrad 19:55, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- If your friend didn't know what wikipedia was for, and created an article about the game because he thought people would like to know about it, that wouldn't make him a bad person. Kappa 22:41, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- That doesn't answer the question asked. DavidConrad didn't ask for your judgement of his friend's character. He asked whether Wikipedia should have such an article. My answer is "No, not unless that specific game is widely played, or there are multiple independent sources that discuss that game.". The same applies here. There are plenty of sources that discuss the many varieties of ball games that there are, according to Google Web alone. Also according to Google Web, this game isn't mentioned in any of them by this name. The article cites no sources itself, of course. This is original research, the publication of a newly invented ball game (or, at the very least, a newly invented name for a ball game) in Wikipedia. The article nigh-on states this outright. Delete. Uncle G 01:03:28, 2005-09-12 (UTC)
- Sorry, I thought it was a rhetorical question. Kappa 01:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- That doesn't answer the question asked. DavidConrad didn't ask for your judgement of his friend's character. He asked whether Wikipedia should have such an article. My answer is "No, not unless that specific game is widely played, or there are multiple independent sources that discuss that game.". The same applies here. There are plenty of sources that discuss the many varieties of ball games that there are, according to Google Web alone. Also according to Google Web, this game isn't mentioned in any of them by this name. The article cites no sources itself, of course. This is original research, the publication of a newly invented ball game (or, at the very least, a newly invented name for a ball game) in Wikipedia. The article nigh-on states this outright. Delete. Uncle G 01:03:28, 2005-09-12 (UTC)
- If your friend didn't know what wikipedia was for, and created an article about the game because he thought people would like to know about it, that wouldn't make him a bad person. Kappa 22:41, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.