Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knuckle slider

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The result was delete as WP:OR. Der yck C. 17:36, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Knuckle slider

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The knuckle slider is not a pitch referred to in any pitching manual I have read. This article has been unsourced for over four years. Jprg1966 ^(talk) 07:34, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No sourcing, link is dead...fails WP:SOURCES Яεñ99 (talk) 08:37, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No reliable sources available for this article. Appears to be WP:OR. Nwlaw63 (talk) 13:25, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. 16:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC) • Gene93k (talk) 16:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ Not sure where you guys are getting "no reliable sources" from. I don't see alot, but I see enough.[1] – Muboshgu (talk) 17:17, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- After further review, the sources aren't enough for a standalone article, but do bear mentioning on slider. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:11, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Slider. Muboshgu's sources are good enough, but it doesn't need a separate page. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:00, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- A merge could be appropriate. I'd have to more deeply examine those sources. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:09, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete looking at the sources above, none of them discusses a "knuckle slider" in detail. Every source either a player claims that they throw one, or they put the two pitches randomly together while mentioning a list of pitches. Clear cut example of WP:NEO and WP:NOR Secret ^account 04:58, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Muboshgu. Sources do exist, but not enough substance to justify separate article, or to differentiate between ordinary slider pitch in detail per Secret's comment, but there is more than enough for a one-sentence mention and definition in the slider article as a subvariety of same. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 22:18, 18 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
'Delete I'll be darned if I ever heard of a "knuckle slider" in my years of watching baseball games; honestly sounds like a pitch you'd come up with to throw in a game of wiffle ball. Go Phightins! (talk) 02:45, 20 August 2012 (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.