Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ferret legging (3rd nomination)

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The result was keep. The article has been vastly improved (to at least GA standards in my opinion) since being nominated, and there is an overwhelming consensus to keep the article. Thus, per WP:SNOW, I am closing this early as there is no other possible outcome. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 18:58, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ferret legging

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I'm trying to nominate this properly... some bunchanumbers keeps adding the AFD tag to this article, but isn't following the procedure (no debate opened, no talk page comment) - hopefully this will settle things. The two previous debates were back in 2006, do their points still apply? Abstain btw, I just want to see this done properly. Totnesmartin (talk) 18:34, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete If this was a real "sport" it would show up in more than one source. Steve Dufour (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- Cybercobra (talk) 19:11, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. -- Cybercobra (talk) 19:12, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - may be an ~~myth~~ obscure 'sport' but it's notable as such. Wasn't it in a Simpsons episode at one point? –xeno^talk 19:59, 12 August 2009 (UTC) Disclosure: Found my way here from an off-wiki link[reply]
- Yes, it was featured in Cape Feare. :) The leftorium 20:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Certainly not a myth; here's an ABC mention of it as far away from its Yorkshire birthplace as Tasmania; an Edinburgh pub named for it; even a "Ferret and Trouser Leg March, for wind and brass band". Just because something isn't on Google doesn't mean it doesn't exist. – iride scent 20:06, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and rescue multiple sources on LexisNexis from the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Thatcher 20:11, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I have very clear memories of my ferret-owning neighbour shoving the things down his trousers, legs tied at the bottom. A sport? I don't know, but shoving ferrets down your trousers was certainly a popular pastime amongst ferret-owners of the NW. Parrot of Doom (talk) 20:15, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note I have tagged the article for rescue and added references on behalf of the Article Rescue Squadron. Skomorokh 20:17, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, sources indicate notability. Everyking (talk) 20:23, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Although now illegal, this was certainly once a relatively popular sport in the North of England, until only a few years ago, in fact. --Malleus Fatuorum 21:49, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The article has convinced me this is a real and Notable phenomenon (albeit one I'd never heard of before). KevinOKeeffe (talk) 22:12, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Read this WR thread--it includes added online refs. Eric Barbour (talk) 22:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The reference section is long and thorough. Dream Focus 05:24, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
keep of course William M. Connolley (talk) 08:53, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Meets the notability guideline and the article has been significantly improved by User:Malleus Fatuorum, User:Skomorokh, and myself. The leftorium 14:12, 13 August 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.