Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sports lottery

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 Merge to Betting pool. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-04-24 10:26Z

Sports lottery

First of all, I was the original author of this article. The entry is necessary and quite valid. In fact, the sports lottery entry was a great addition to wikipedia. Sports lottery is a term that is used by a large number of people all across the world.

The fact that it has been nominated for deletion shows the obvious disregard for improving the article. It simply proves that the person who has suggested deletion has been blinded by his own anger and hatred of pointshavers.com. If you look at the history of this article, the general tone of the edits has been opposition to the website pointshavers.com and not the entry itself. It's really a shame that someone would propose to delete an entry that is quite relevant to wikipidia.

Now, I have been very open to improving the article contents. I have, in fact, responded to others who have made suggestions on the content of the article and I will continue to do so. I have run out of time at the moment to comment on the article contents. I will do so shortly.

Article subject is entirely redundant to betting pool, it even says sports lottery is simply another term for football pool which also has its own article. I redirected it, but the original author reverted it, apparently to spam the entirely unnotable pointshavers.com domain which is ludicrously mentioned as an example. That site doesn't even have 300 online mentions of any kind. The author has also claimed "ownership" of the article. The article should be deleted and redirected to the betting pool article. I have already moved the usable text over there. 2005 07:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment seems like an issue for WP:AIV rather than AfD. cab 09:48, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect - I asgree with Cab, it is something requrieing AIV. Your redirect was the right action. -- Whpq 18:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to betting pool and football pool as appropriate. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 20:46, 19 April 2007 (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.