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]Fingerpoke of Doom
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WP:N. The article has been deleted twice before. The first time the result was "no consensus". It was then (re)nominated, and survived, due to more votes for "Keep" than for "Delete". However, since Wikipedia is not a popularity contest, I have remoninated the Article, due to its lack of Sources which back up the claims, and its being made from whole cloth. Also, anyone checking Webster's, OED, or dictionary.com will discover that there is not, nor has ever been such a word as "Fingerpoke". The term is only used by ONE of the various Sources, Reliable or not. It is fairly popular with the Internet Wrestling Community though. Seeker of the Torch (talk) 14:55, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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- Delete - I've made my case here, which I will be happy to copy and paste as it applies as much then as it does now. The only people who seem to find this event important are wrestling fans on message boards. If you do a google search, you will find out of the top 50 results more than half of search results come back with message board topics. Please put this article out of its misery once and for all. --Endlessdan (talk) 15:36, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and rename - The reliable sources obviously establish notability, as they discuss the event and its impact, so this seems to be a frivolous nomination. As for the unresolved citation needed tags, they were added less than a week ago over Christmas, so WP:NOTIMELIMIT certainly applies there. Now, the event was certainly notable, and the big thing that the deletionists point to in these discussions is the article title. I can certainly see an argument for renaming the article to something less "message board"y. GaryColemanFan (talk) 16:07, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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- Delete Or add a small section to the WCW article. We don't need this blow-by-blow account of something that might have happened this way or that, and which ended a 'championship' or didn't, depending who you believe. (I personally wonder how much of this hyped-up wrestling is real anyway.) If it can be shown that this event/riot/performance was really important to anything important, OK. So far, it doesn't look like it. Peridon (talk) 20:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the talk) 00:57, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Weak delete. Add relevant information to the WCW article. While it may have been significant at the time, wrestling pretty much controls it's own history. Without substantial external reliable sources, it's only relevant in an in-universe manner.Dayewalker (talk) 18:53, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]- Striking my vote, out of respect for the process. Dayewalker (talk) 04:49, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant deleteAs a pro-wrestling aficionado, I would put the "Fingerpoke" as one of a handful of catalysts that marked the downfall of WCW, (conceding the point that it is not the one and only turning point in its history.) Unfortunately, there does not seem to be enough information here that truly warrants a separate article, and after three AfDs I don't believe that a good article is forthcoming. Over half of this article goes on to talk about events outside of the match itself, including the juxtaposition with events that night on WWE RAW. I'm not going to comment on the Notability claims directly, since pro-wrestling articles seem to suffer from a systemic bias in the Notability department, in that most of the dedicated press outlets are routinely decried as "dirtsheets" and the more mainstream press outlets don't generally cover wrestling. -- RoninBK T C 20:40, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]- Withdrawn !Vote Kudos to McJeff for sniffing out this smelly sock. My editorializing (read: bitching) about the apparent stricter levels of scrutiny applied by some to pro-wrestling articles is a subject for another time. This page is in desperate need of a cleanup though, and if this page is not improved before the next guy with a chip on his shoulder comes along with a 4th nom, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up deleted. -- RoninBK T C 05:18, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Originally you said "a good article is never forthcoming" but now you are saying "give it some time for clean up"... so why the change now?--Endlessdan (talk) 16:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Definately does not meetWP:N. Smiles The Clown (talk) 10:19, 2 January 2011 (UTC) Striking out vote of a sock of a banned user. McJEFF (talk) 01:49, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, then condense article and put on the WCW page under "decline". The Fingerpoke is one of the major events that caused WCW to fall, but it is a booked storyline and conforms to professional wrestling's nature, unlike the Montreal Screwjob which is an actual event that happened in a a supposedly-fictionalized setting. Most of the entries in the page are written in a POV and is not uncyclopedic in nature. But still, the fingerpoke is a real event, it has citation, but is not as important and as relevant to the Wrestling industry as the Montreal Screwjob to have an article of it's own. So, there. Including it on the WCW page is the best way we can do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.54.122.85 (talk) 17:19, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The Montreal Screwjob was a booked storyline event too, albeit improvised a bit when Bret Hart failed to play along with the original booked outcome. Yes, the Screwjob had much more of an effect on the industry as a whole, but that's mainly because the WWE has been constantly playing off of it for over twelve years. The problem with the Fingerpoke article isn't that it wasn't important, it's that there isn't nearly enough that can be written about it to justify a standalone article. -- RoninBK T C 17:49, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: This article was nominated for deletion by a ECW500 sock. [1] McJEFF (talk) 01:10, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep: I am not addressing the actual state of the article. Instead I am simply rebutting the claims that sourcing is inadequate, and a couple other delete votes as well.
- In regards to the books, ignoring the online sources for the time being. The article is currently sourced to seven wrestling books. Four are the biographies of Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Eric Bischoff. The other three are third-party sources. They were both published by ECW Press. As has been mentioned on various AfDs, ECW Press is not a vanity publisher and inclusion in a book published by them does confer notability. The issue then becomes if there is adequate mention of them. Both Death of WCW and Between the ropes devote a significant amount of discussion to both the incident and its ramifications.
- Also, as mentioned in the previous AfD, the incident gets hits on google news - one on "Fingerpoke of Doom" and three on "Finger Poke of Doom". In fact, one of the hits on the second search is a column about boxing that still sees fit to mention it[2].
- Most of the Delete !Votes take issue of the sourcing. The others are saying it's "just not notable", and some are openly hostile to wrestling fans, or wrestling in general. Also, one Delete!Vote mentioned that it happened a long time ago. Notability does not diminish over time.
- As far as other delete votes, we have Endlessdan's old argument that "only wrestling fans care about it", Peridon's openly hostile to wrestling vote, Smiles the Clown is another ECW500 sock, and... that's about it. McJEFF (talk) 01:48, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Yet my "old argument" still holds weight. 3 years later and this article hasn't been improved and still hasn't been proven to be notable enough to people other than wrestling fans to warrant its own article. --Endlessdan (talk) 16:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Not as much weight as you might think. See Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions#Nobody's working on it (or impatience with improvement) -- RoninBK T C 18:58, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Yet my "old argument" still holds weight. 3 years later and this article hasn't been improved and still hasn't been proven to be notable enough to people other than wrestling fans to warrant its own article. --Endlessdan (talk) 16:27, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I concur that the subject is notable - and there's sourcing to back it. But the criticism section is a goddamn mess, and it's been that way for a long while, near as I can tell. While I'm not sure this should be deleted, Endlessdan's concerns aren't far off the mark. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 14:45, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Well that was easy enough to fix. Someone who owns the books will probably want to go add some direct quotes and page numbers to the citation templates, but it's no longer so sloppy and reliant on quoted text. McJEFF (talk) 19:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- It should be noted that the massive quotations in the Criticism section (which were probably bordering on copyright violations) were added by the block sockpuppet. GaryColemanFan (talk) 05:37, 7 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Well that was easy enough to fix. Someone who owns the books will probably want to go add some direct quotes and page numbers to the citation templates, but it's no longer so sloppy and reliant on quoted text. McJEFF (talk) 19:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep: Due to blocked sock nomination. --Truth-- 22:35, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge relevant information into Monday Nitro. Notable topic, with reliable sources, but does it really need its own Wikipedia article? Turnstitle (talk) 16:04, 7 January 2011 (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.