Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Settleball

Settleball

Sport invented a few months ago at one school, no sources to support article's claims of popularity/notability. Author removed prod tag without adding sources. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete for the above reasons. Czolgolz (talk) 20:57, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails notability guidelines for WP:GNG. A search finds zero results for Settleball. Essentially a game made-up at one school by a few school kids. — CactusWriter | ^needles 21:00, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:NFT Acebulf (talk) 21:08, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- — LinguistAtLarge • Talk 21:17, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Unfortunately, this doesn't even come close to meeting the notability guideline. No prejudice against creation at a future date when/if it becomes a notable sport, and that notability is verifiable. — LinguistAtLarge • Talk 21:19, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:MADEUP and WP:N. No mention of this game anywhere, from what I could see. ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 22:07, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails notability guidelines. It's not a personal journal after all… Skarebo (talk) 09:35, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't Delete - This is a game having just started, and of course it would not be all voer the web for this reason. Give it some time and it will take off. If it doesn't, then deletion can come into the picture. 18:03, 1 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Millsy101 (talk • contribs)
Delete, if the only reason not to delete is "It will take off", there's no good reason to keep; the previous argument is crystalballish. Nyttend (talk) 17:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't Delete - the sport is already spread around a few schools including mine (wesley college). there is even talk of a tornement being set up next year between dublin schools —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.217.109 (talk)
Delete For the record, it appears to be the game of volleyball played with a tennis ball but without racquets, and it's supposed to be sweeping the nation (the Republic of Ireland). Too bad that the local newsppers appear to have ignored it. Mandsford (talk) 17:40, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Don't Delete - If you did read the article, you would see that it is quite new, and be honest, since when have newspapers taken to reporting on kids school games that aren't even well established? But surely that doesn't mean we shouldn't give it a chance? 19:29, 1 April 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.117.191 (talk)
Don't Delete - I'm from Blackrock College, Dublin and this game is played daily at senior and junior breaks. Just because it isn't very popular yet doesn't mean it isn't real and should be removed from wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.150.64 (talk)

Yes it does, WP:Notability requires that an article be referenced to reliable sources. The criterion for inclusion at Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. It does not matter that the game really exists, what matters is that it is notable enough to have received some coverage in independant sources. Delete. SpinningSpark 21:10, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't Delete - This sport has officially been agreed to be published in The High School, Dublin Yearbook. Does this not count as an official publication? 22:54, 1 April 2009