Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curse of the Coin Flip
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- 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 delete. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 01:10, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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This article is just a pure example of original reasearch as it could be. None of the sources with the exception of one fan site mentions a curse of the team, and I got less than 100 direct google hits and 0 google news hits. It's litterally a fan-based WP:COATRACK Delete Secret account 19:08, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Yuk. The Curse of the Coin Flip sounds like a Hardy Boys mystery, but the real mystery is how this stayed up since March. This is an original research essay that describes the curse as "Two seasons after selecting Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Bucks won an NBA Championship (1971), while the Suns still have yet to do so." Notwithstanding that the Suns somehow made it to the 1976 championship without Kareem, this is simply a rewriting of existing material on the team's history in a supposedly humorous style. It's worth noting that the only "source" that actually refers to a curse is a comment in a blog [1] that got no responses. Mandsford (talk) 21:46, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete It's certainly interesting, but not enough sources to keep it from being called original research, per User:Mandsford, ARBITRARILY0 (talk) 01:18, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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