Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eight-thousander

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The result was Speedy Keep as these high mountains seem to be covered in snow. Warden (talk) 12:14, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Eight-thousander[edit]

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No proof that this is a widely used term. Sources do not use the term at all, and only verify each mountain's height. A search for "eight thousander" + "mountain" turned up nothing in the way of reliable sources. The fact that a footnote in the article even points out an arbitrary "generally accepted" cutoff shows that there is no way to objectively denote everything here, thus making this list WP:OR on its face. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:14, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is this some kind of joke? --RacerX¹¹ Talk to me^{Stalk me} 02:53, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keeep:[1],[2],[3]: Google search term was "Mountain climbing 8000", seems to be a widely -used cutoff to describe a seriously big mountain.TheLongTone (talk) 03:30, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Gargantuan Keep: There's a reason that every article here about reknowned Himalayan mountaineers (at least in the modern era) links to this article. Arbitrary or not, summits of the 14 8,000'ers is the ultimate measure of the most elite mountaineers in the world. Is this a suggestion to rename the article? If so, this is misplaced. Steveozone (talk) 04:00, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep. Sorry Hammer, but even I've heard of 8000ers,[4][5][6] and the closest I've come to mountain climbing is watching The Mountain. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:03, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP!!!: ALL that I do here on Wikipedia is related exclusively to mountaineering, especially related to 8000ers, and this probably is the main page that I use. I concur with User:Racerx11; is this some kind of a joke? Qwrk (talk) 06:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep according to the above arguments.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This appears to be a widely-used term, to wit the book by Reinhold Messner, arguably the world's greatest climber, which is titled All 14 eight-thousanders (Cloudcap, 1988), and The American Alpine Journal by the American Alpine Club, which uses the term. No brainer. --Bermicourt (talk) 09:17, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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