Deletion of WRGPT

Comment: it's not expounded upon well, but ''flood of sockpuppets'' is a usual signature of an article that needs to be deleted, the same way ''The article about this band is written in the first person'' is a usual signature that the article needs to be deleted.  In this case, the flood of sockpuppets is a result of the article's total failure of , ,  et al
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:OR||WP:SPAM)

Comment: but replace with |verifiable info from |reliable sources. On doing a little research of my own, it appears that notable poker players such as Chris Fergusonhttp://www.quizkids.com/wrgpt/wrgpt4.html and Greg Raymerhttp://www.quizkids.com/wrgpt11/ have taken part in this tournament. The FAQ for rec.gambling.misc has some info on ithttp://www.bjrnet.com/RG/general.html#H2.  A volunteer run internet-based poker tournament that mostly antedates the web is the kind of quirky stuff that a mainstream encyclopedia would miss and Wikipedia is so great at covering, and it is certainly notable for being perhaps the only email-based poker tournament.  In any case, I think the label "SPAM" is unnecessarily harsh for a site that's volunteer run on donations and doesn't blast the viewer with thousands of ads. Full disclosure: I myself don't know anything about poker, but, being from the generation that grew up during the golden years of USENET, I admit to being rather biased in favour of organisations that had their start in newsgroups
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:RS)

Comment: totally |unsourced, no references to |reliable, independent writeups of this tournament. There could be larger email poker tournaments out there. Or there may not be. How'd anybody know? We can't just take their word for it. Certainly not for an encyclopedia article
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:RS)

Comment: fails , , and AIN
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Spam (WP:SPAM||WP:V||WP:VAIN)

Comment: with fire.  Fails , , AIN with a passion
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Spam (WP:SPAM||WP:V||WP:VAIN)

Comment: to closing admin: if the consensus is to delete, than can you move it to a user sub-page? I think this article can be improved to meet  and , but I don't currently possess the information to make it so and am reluctant to edit a page that might soon be deleted anyhow. Thanks
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:NOR)

Comment: fails 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:No original research (WP:OR)