Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dhopkhel

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 keep. The subject (a traditional sport in Assam) exists. Given the article's pitiful state when the nominator found it, this certainly looked like a good faith nomination, but apparently the nominator is banned as a sockpuppet, which makes this a case for speedy keep. I only learned about the ban when I went to the nominator's talk page to ask for a second look after the rewrite. I entirely rewrote the article from what I was able to find. If anybody else can tease out more information about the actual gameplay from the one source I found, you're a better man than I am. It sounds like some kind of demented combination of soccer and dodgeball, and judging from the photo (we actually had one on Commons) it's played with a Hacky Sack. At any rate, as the author of the current version and a !voter in the discussion I'm quite a scofflaw for closing this. So if you have an issue, let me know, and I'll be happy to reverse myself. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 03:56, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dhopkhel

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Does not specify significance and is short of content... Ajayupai95 (talk) 07:31, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:22, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:22, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LlamaAl (talk) 00:49, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, weakly. This page is nigh unintelligible, the nomination easily understandable: but the subject would appear to be real. This is a much more intelligible introduction from what appears to be a news aggregation site of some kind. It also appears in this children's textbook. Are there other names in different languages, or closely related games? - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I replaced the text found here with a slight but serviceable stub. I found the description of the game play on the reference somewhat hard to follow, so someone who actually knows how the game is played might want to correct that. There are not a whole lot of references for this -- again, unless there are other names or spelling variants. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 16:39, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I was going to ask the nominator to consider withdrawing this, when I discovered that the nominator has been blocked as a sockpuppet. This may be technical grounds for a speedy keep. We even had a picture of the game being played at Commons. The current text is quite different from the nominated text in any case, and obviously I'm not the person who should close this. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 03:40, 1 March 2013 (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.