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See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adidas Telstar 18 - reasoning: No notability, no references. Vague article, and a lot of articles on footballs could be combined into one article e.g. "Adidas footballs" Master Of Ninja (talk) 14:06, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
@ HiLo48:, if you have a different assessment of the ball, you can add it to the article with citations. Removing properly referenced material because you think it is "nonsense" seems to me an inverted form of WP:OR. There are plenty of articles stating that the ball was designed to prevent "knuckle balls," but they read like they were lifted from Adidas press releases with no further research. As I mentioned in one of my edit summaries, I heard a statement to the contrary in the commentary during a World Cup match, so I went looking and found numerous reports that supported the commentator's view. Here's another source that looks promising, but I don't have a subscription. Jack N. Stock ( talk) 22:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
The sources are unanimous that the match balls used in the FIFA World Cup are made in Pakistan, while some other versions are made in China. It seems (based on online reviews including on Adidas web site) that the balls for sale in the US are shipped from China. Jack N. Stock ( talk) 11:36, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
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See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adidas Telstar 18 - reasoning: No notability, no references. Vague article, and a lot of articles on footballs could be combined into one article e.g. "Adidas footballs" Master Of Ninja (talk) 14:06, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
@ HiLo48:, if you have a different assessment of the ball, you can add it to the article with citations. Removing properly referenced material because you think it is "nonsense" seems to me an inverted form of WP:OR. There are plenty of articles stating that the ball was designed to prevent "knuckle balls," but they read like they were lifted from Adidas press releases with no further research. As I mentioned in one of my edit summaries, I heard a statement to the contrary in the commentary during a World Cup match, so I went looking and found numerous reports that supported the commentator's view. Here's another source that looks promising, but I don't have a subscription. Jack N. Stock ( talk) 22:14, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
The sources are unanimous that the match balls used in the FIFA World Cup are made in Pakistan, while some other versions are made in China. It seems (based on online reviews including on Adidas web site) that the balls for sale in the US are shipped from China. Jack N. Stock ( talk) 11:36, 6 July 2018 (UTC)