Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Backcountry snowboarding

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The result was Nomination Withdrawn. Non-admin closure. TJ Spyke 18:32, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Backcountry snowboarding[edit]

Complete lack of encyclopedic content that's killed editing. Topic is notable but all the text is from a college project posted into Wikipedia by single purpose account[1] and reads like a how-to. Poster claims no copyvio but we have no way of knowing. Been on the wikify log for 1.5 years with little improvement or editing, probably due to the length and the difficulty of wikifying. Topic could be accomodated in snowboarding. I think deletion/blanking is the only option here. Phil153 (talk) 06:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This could be merged into snowboarding, but it looks to be rather different. It has problems, but I am inclined to think it can be fixed rather than deleted. --Bduke (Discussion) 11:23, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep - I have entirely rewritten the article ([2]) so that it no longer reads like a how-to or an essay. I don't believe that there is currently any reason to delete this article as it is now encyclopedic. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 16:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw nomination thanks to Arbitrarily0's excellent work. Phil153 (talk) 17:59, 3 January 2009 (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.