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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn (see comment under the first "Keep"), no delete !votes standing (non-admin closure) Pgallert (talk) 13:59, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1991 BDO World Darts Championship

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A search for reference found no published (gBook) WP:RS for the content of this article. A few mentions of the BDO are found but nothing for 1991, the organizations web page does not list (that I could find) results from 1991. The web page says "On June 3rd, 2005 the application by The British Darts Organisation for darts to be recognised as a bona-fide sport", implying that it was not prior to that. All indications are that these early articles fail WP:N and WP:V Jeepday (talk) 02:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what the first link is supposed to be. Can the proposer correct it?GeorgeLouis (talk) 03:33, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also not sure how this article could be so detailed and the facts found elsewhere in WP if it is spurious. Huh? GeorgeLouis (talk) 04:51, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - This BBC article clearly shows that the World Darts Championship has been going since 1978 and that Dennis Priestley won in 1991, as the article states. This Dutch source mentions Priestley beating Eric Bristow 6-0 in the 1991 world final, again matching the article. This page on the official Professional Darts Corporation website mentions Priestley winning the 1991 world championship, as does this article from The Independent newspaper. And the clincher - there's actually footage of it on YouTube (search "Eric Bristow vs Dennis Priestley - 1991 World Finals")!!!! So clearly the tournament did take place, and as a world championship tournament in a fairly major sport/game I would say it is inherently notable -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:00, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding all those great references Chris, I used the BBC article to add a reference to this one and several other unreferenced BDO articles. Clearly this AfD is going to be keep because of your work. No objections to an early close. JeepdaySock (AKA, Jeepday) 16:10, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep as per ChristheDude.--Johnsemlak (talk) 10:55, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as per above, and I might further note that whether it is technically a bona-fide sport doesn't really say much about its notability prior to that because that seems like a rather arbitrary standard. For example, some people have recently tried to get chess classified as an Olympic sport, and have failed, but that doesn't mean that chess articles are non-notable. Kansan (talk) 14:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:53, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Long-running championship of a serious sport. This page for the 1991 event is one of a series of similar pages and is well done, informative, and likely to be of interest to Wikipedia users. Ignore All Rules = Use Common Sense. Carrite (talk) 20:05, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep – A world championship of a sport that is reasonably high-profile figures to have plenty of coverage to draw from in writing an article. I'm confident based on what's up there that this is the case here. Giants2008 (27 and counting) 02:08, 24 February 2011 (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.