Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gentlemen's Chess

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 was delete as unverifiable. Editors have been unable to find any sources at all. As a last-ditch check, I tried to find some sources myself, and couldn't find a thing. The explicit statement by the article's creator, 888vbox888 (talk · contribs), that there are no sources is the final nail in the coffin. This is not what Wikipedia is for, 888vbox888. As it said next to the edit box when you created the article, encyclopaedia content must be verifiable. If you want to document a chess variant that you or your friends made up in University, get it documented through the proper channels, outside of Wikipedia, first. Uncle G (talk) 19:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gentlemen's Chess

A chess variant. Somewhat more serious than the average NFT article but the lack of references and Google hits suggest that it is not notable. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 11:07, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ -Delete - I am suggesting keep on the assumption this chess variant is legitimate and can be sourced. The article is by a new editor and this is their first and only article edited just ten days ago. The variant is listed and linked in the Chess variants. Talk:Gentlemen's Chess kinda shoots my logical down. I tagged the article for sourcing.--Mike Cline (talk) 14:01, 13 October 2008 (UTC)--Mike Cline (talk) 12:30, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Afraid this wreaks of WP:MADEUP. "Gentlemen's Chess" returns a whopping 82 ghits. Sounds like a lovely game that is not yet ready for Wikipedia. -Verdatum (talk) 19:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I managed to knock it down to 0 Google Hits. -Verdatum (talk) 20:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 20:20, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Interesting idea, but Wikipedia isn't a place for unsourced things made up in university one day. Nyttend (talk) 20:46, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the plea at Talk:Gentlemen's Chess says it all! Fails WP:V. After the inevitable deletion it should also be removed from Chess variant. Smile a While (talk) 21:10, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to chess variant if can be verified as not made up. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:32, 17 October 2008 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.