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The result was delete all. Proto::type 12:13, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

EIFSA[edit]

Vanity. Issue came up after creation and same spam on NL-wiki. The so-called "organisation" and its website seem very amateuristic. User:Hsf-toshiba came up with the problem on NL-wiki, as he's into artistic roller skating , but doesn't know this "inline scating" "fedaration" however. Creator of the article has been advertising in the Artistic roller skating article too [1], too. Seems really non-professional project and vanity article about someones hobby and hobby site. LimoWreck 21:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

related nominations

Holiday On Inlines - advertising as well
Doubts on Inline Figure Skating - not nominated, but created by same user (or sockpuppet), and linkspam reverted by different users.
Samantha Bennis - vanity article of author, cross-posted on NL-wiki

Hi,

I don't understand what the problem is. We are a team promoting inline figure skating: that is our Mission Statement.

EIFSA and Holiday On Inlines use the same computer at offices in Rotterdam where Samantha, Stephanie and Gavin are located.

We are part of the administration of EIFSA and the Holiday On Inlines team:

EIFSA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EIFSA/

http://www.geocities.com/eifsa_web/

HOLIDAY ON INLINES: http://geocities.com/HolidayOnInlines

http://skatehead.xs4all.nl/cpg/index.php

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HolidayOnInlines/

Inline Figure Skating has been approved by FIRS and CIPA. All the relevant info is online:

http://www.geocities.com/eifsa_infos/

http://www.geocities.com/eifsa_infos/TECHNICAL_INFO.html

Inline Figure Skating is an off-ice training option for ice skaters and an extra competition discipline for quad artistic roller skaters.

There seems to be some strange resentment towards the growing popularity of Inline Figure Skating, which is understandable but some are behaving genuinely hateful about it. Discriminating against it is nothing to be proud of, it is downright tragic!

skatingly,

Samantha Bennis

Stephiesk8 22:16, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you say and prove it yourself. An official national federation is fine on Wikipedia. A hobby team (using geocities and yahoo as website) is not notable however. Wikipedia is not the place for each local club or association to advertise their occupation. --LimoWreck 22:32, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Strong delete I think they made the case against themselves just fine: lots of geocities and yahoo links. Veinor (ヴエノル^(talk)) 22:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This has nothing to do with prejudice or discrimination or anything else, Samantha/Steph. This has to do with standards of quality on the encyclopedia. This is not verified by any reliable source. - Che Nuevara 22:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Organization has no official standing and no particular claim to notability. Any article people write to promote their own organizations is automatically suspect as vanity, too. Dr.frog 00:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Unable to establish claim to notability-- No large number of googlehits, no non-trivial news reports. Basically, the problem is a lack of sufficient notability to have an encyclopedia article.
- "European Inline Figure Skating Association" garners 35 unique/51 total google hits
- Faciva search no hits.
- 122 unique out of 399 google hits for EIFSA -wikipedia.
- no hits on Factiva for EIFSA. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 12:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]