Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doxbridge Tournament

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 per this discussion and previous referenced AfD on Doxbridge. —Doug Bell ^talk 20:57, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doxbridge Tournament

See also Doxbridge (AfD discussion).

Doxbridge Tournament (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I don't really see how this is notable. There's no suggestion that there are any external sources that mention it and google only throws up the Junior Common Rooms of the Oxford, Cambridge and Durham colleges. It's claim to be the biggest collegiate sporting tournament is backed up only by its own website and isn't that impressive when you think that there are only six collegiate universities in England anyway. As for the word 'Doxbridge' - its a hideous neologism --Robdurbar 11:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. MER-C 11:45, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep -

1.articles which are not deleted usually grow in time. The article on my secondary school being a great example 2. Usually only a word not liked by Oxbridge people thinking Durham is trying to add themsleves to their portmanteau. 3. A nice addition to Durham University navigation box thing which wikipedians have clearly worked hard on 4. Passes the google test and I tihnk it improves the Durham Unversity article. Generally just makes wikipedia closer to being the sum of all human knowledge. - unsigned comment by User:Francium12

What does point number 2 mean? btw, the nominator is a student at Durham Bwithh 20:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, that's a point worth making. I must admit that I would accept this failing on the grounds of potential conflict of interest; but I thought it was delete worthy and so worth bringing for discussion. --Robdurbar 22:00, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - as an Oxbridge person, of course I don't like the word, thinking Durham is trying to add themselves to our portmanteau :-). In a more serious vein, I've never heard of the tournament in my time at Oxford, so IMO the event is not that notable even within the universities' communities; plus I agree with all of the nominator's arguments. -- Marcika 19:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Plus, it definitely is not the largest collegiate sports tournament in the UK - even the Oxford intercollegiate rowing races (Torpids and Eights) have more participants. -- Marcika 19:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Oxbridge, where the term and tournament is already mentioned Bwithh 20:12, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
• Cautious Keep - I don't hold a particularly strong view, but I created the article originally (only a tiny stub - others have since added more information), so thought I'd throw in my thoughts. "Doxbridge" got around 300 google hits when I created it, almost all referring to the sports tournament. It now, suprisingly, gets about 4,800 hits, although a lot of these will be linked back to the article I created. However, its use has definantly increased and most of the hits again refer to the Doxbridge tournament. As someone at Cambridge (who has never been to Durham University) who hates the idea of Durham being compared to Oxbridge (it's NOT, I live in a village outside of Durham and hate it when people do this), I think the article actually clarifies that this is just a sports tournament. Indeed, one of the main reasons for creating the article was that by firmly attatching the view that "Doxbridge" = "sports tournament" (which is the truth) we could prevent the term "Doxbridge" being used to infer a greater affiliation if it were left to float around and attatch its own meanings. Note that "Doxbridge" links to the article. It's a win-win situation in my opinion. Logica 01:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

PS I am not affiliated in anyway to the tournament, nor have I ever been to it (nor do I plan to) - not that that should matter anyway!!!!!!! Logica 01:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. There are dozens and dozens of inter-university games and meets, and with certain important exceptions they are not notable. This one certainly doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary. WMMartin 18:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

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.