Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Borgolf

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The result of the debate was delete. —Xezbeth 15:07, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Borgolf

Not notable, unencyclopaedic. Worldtraveller 22:42, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, bogus. Neutrality^talk 23:39, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non-verifiable, not notable. Kaldari 23:59, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable. Megan1967 02:44, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• keep, of course. Passes the pokemon test, and it's an actual game that hundreds of students have played...in six states! Kaldari, why'd you do a copyedit if you think it's non-notable? ---FoodMarket ^talk! 04:00, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless proof is provided that this thing actually exists and is actually notable. Gamaliel 04:20, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment -- I think notability is evident... not sure how I can prove it exists... maybe the next time the weather is nice i can send some videos of the dozens of students playing it? If we can have an article about every episode in a tv series there is a place on wikipedia for invented sports, especially one as widespread as borgolf. ---FoodMarket ^talk! 04:22, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • You can provide a link to a news article or webpage about the game. It is a requirement of Wikipedia that information in articles be verifiable and that editors do not conduct original research. Gamaliel 04:25, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
      • i'll look for a link ... haven't seen one yet though and people have been asking me about the game, which is part of the reason i saw a need for the wiki article in the first place. I'm sure you appreciate how some topics, though less notable, lend themselves much more to Internet coverage than others and i think borgolf falls into the latter category, unfortunately. Still don't see how this is original research any more than other articles, i didn't have any role in the game's invention and didnt even play it till the last day in nashville... "George Bush is the 43rd president," is it original research if i counted the ones before? ---FoodMarket ^talk! 04:36, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I read verifiable and I see that wikipedia does rely on published references, but I think that some value has to be assigned to the fact that borgolf is the sort of topic that achieves notability long before the mainstream media takes notice... so how to do an article? should wikipedia wait? ---FoodMarket ^talk! 04:47, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Comment: Generally, yes, we should wait. Wikipedia has no need to "scoop" anyone and a great need to be easily verifiable by any future reader/editor. Patience is a virtue when deciding to write about events that are still current. Rossami (talk) 02:19, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Only 29 hits, most other uses? Unverifiable and/or neologism and/or original research. Given the timeless, universal nature of Wikipedia, even if it can be proved college students in 6 US states have played the game in the past couple months, I'm not sure it's a big enuf blip in the universal timeline to have an article (at least yet)--I suspect a LOT of "games" that have been 'invented' on US colleges that won't pass the test of time. Niteowlneils 06:44, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I would answer that unlike most spur of the moment "invented" college games, this has spread to six states. ---FoodMarket ^talk! 12:40, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• I'm with Niteowlneils, but from the other side. If this *does* take off, the article will just have to be retrometabolised. Review in 6 months--Simon Cursitor 07:43, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete unless and until it takes off. RickK 19:50, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
• Borgolf has spread to Florida University? Funny, that doesn't exist, unless you're Lorraine in a MADtv segment. Delete, dubious. Mike H 22:23, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
  • haha oh come on, i think you know i meant University of Florida -- this is wikipedia, if you see an error, correct it. Florida was at the tournament that weekend. ---FoodMarket ^talk! 01:59, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: I did the college equivalent of a Google test; I searched under "groups" and "interests" on thefacebook, which has over a million college students. Surely if it's so popular, at least one kid would either have created a borgolf club or have borgolf as one of their interests. Funny...for every university listed, no results were found. Mike H 22:29, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
  • thefacebook is great and i am as big an internet nerd as anyone but just because something doesnt google or is not listed on thefacebook doesnt mean it's doesn't exist or is not verifiable -- if anyone is from any of the schools listed in the article, please come forward if you've heard of or even played the game, jeez. ---FoodMarket ^talk! 02:01, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable and apparently nonverifiable. Quale 04:06, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not notable, unverifiable. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:31, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

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