Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quidditch World Cup Results

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The result was delete, admitted fiction —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-07-14 10:16Z

I just went and checked my well-worn copy of Quidditch Through the Ages, and it does not contain a complete list of Quidditch World Cup winners. In other words, this list is original work (not research, because it must have been made up by the author (in one day at Hogwarts?)) NawlinWiki 03:38, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information; nominator's reasons are also quite valid (original research, possible hoax) hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 03:49, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• I was also wondering about this myself, especially since it claims that the United States first competed for the cup in 1613, just six years after Jamestown Settlement (the first permanent British colony in North America) was started and about 163 years before the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. In other words, the whole thing is bunk. Delete. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 03:54, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, complete and utter bunk. Flanders, Bulgaria, Wales, and Transylvania weren't independent during the periods they're listed here for. Kirill Lokshin 03:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as Strewth Australia wasn't discovered (and named)until 1769 (ie 144 years after they won at Quidditch) DavidHumphreys^{SPEAK TO ME}ABOUT_{THE THINGS I MESSED UP} 04:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Uh, Quiddich is a fictional sport, folks. So comparing a fictional realm with dates from the non-fictional realm probably doesn't help prove or disprove the article. --Rehcsif 04:34, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per above. OR (or yes, original work as stated by nom). DarthVader 04:57, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete "Quidditch, a sport in vented (sic) by the Harry Potter writer JK Rowling (1965-)" could not have been around in 1473. --Xrblsnggt 05:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete How ridiculous... Michael 06:16, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete, this is the last kind of article we need to see encouraged on Wikipedia--WP:OR, everything completely made up by the author. If it qualified for speedy delete, I'd strongly vote for that. -- H·G (^words/_works) 07:14, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong Delete per nom and above. -- Gogo Dodo 08:09, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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