Talk:List of former Keystone State Wrestling Alliance personnel

Orphaned references in List of Keystone State Wrestling Alliance Alumni
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of Keystone State Wrestling Alliance Alumni's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 13:59, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

Notability
could you see if the present editor has added sufficient sources to prove notability as per your !vote here please? Cheers Dom from Paris (talk) 07:40, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, no. This is a small local promotion, and the majority of the sources are no more than trivial mentions and local coverage. Having the alumni in a separate article is not acceptable per the requirements at WP:SPINOFF. The readable prose of the main article is not too long for it all to be merged into the main page. Nikki♥311 03:45, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * thanks I'll propose a merger even though I think we could delete this without much heartache. Dom from Paris (talk) 10:48, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

List cleanup
The list should be reduced to just the notable alumni WP:ALUMNI and WP:LSC. It doesn't need to be every single person that has been with the organization. Also the columns should be organized by ring name(s) first as used by the wrestler during their tenure there, followed by the column for their real name if known, followed by years active and then refs. Alumni that do not have any notability should be commented out until secondary references prove otherwise. If you don't want all the columns, reduce it to something like with List of American Wrestling Association alumni. See also Florida_Championship_Wrestling Guest wrestlers can be separate and don't need to be known by their real names. Keep current roster names on the KSWA main page only. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 17:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I've reorganized the list into a single one for the alumni, basically everyone under the All Time Megastars list. This includes the managers, owners, valets, referees, announcers. Only a few of them have notability and some are most likely guest visits at most, but if they made that list, they got listed. Details as to their tenure would have to be sourced as right now none of the year ranges have any reliable sources.  AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 21:09, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

I totally agree. The wrestling promotion itself seems to a small local affair that has it's venues in local bars ballrooms and under bridges once or twice a month 3 at most and sometimes not at all I cannot imagine for a minute that everyone who has wrestled with them is notable. I would also suggest cleaning up the main page of non notable people if this page really merits to stay. Dom from Paris (talk) 14:31, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

We've already gone through this on the main page. Both were featured on its talk page. Gvstaylor1 (talk) 21:25, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * sorry I don't follow, can you provide a diff as I can see nothing on the talk page that deals with this. Dom from Paris (talk) 21:44, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
 * the organization has been featured in the wall street journal, cbs bike across America, etc. The organization meets notability requirements, as do the people in it. The organization has existed for 18 years, seeing close to 500 people per show, per their Facebook. More than meeting the notability. WP:NotabilityGvstaylor1 (talk)
 * Hi Gvstaylor1 you may want to have a look at WP:LISTPEOPLE. Which says A person is typically included in a list of people only if all the following requirements are met:
 * The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement.
 * The person's membership in the list's group is established by reliable sources.
 * the notability requirement is her Notability (people) and especially the section WP:LISTBIO which basically says that lists of Alumni are not supposed to contain everyone but those that are notable. This is a wresting promotion where from what I can gather almost all the particpants have day jobs and are not fully pro (I carried out a search on some of the HOF members and others). As I said their website shows that they only have a few events a year and does not have a permanent venue. between now and the end of the year there are only 12 events programmed. Last year there were only 15 events programmed and a dozen wrestlers taking part each time so even if we imagine that there are no overheads and the organisors do it for free as does the referee and only the wrestlers get paid and that there are 500 people all paying the full price of 10$ this is about 500$ per month per wrestler. We are not talking about fully pro wrestlers here so it is very unlikely that evrey single one of them has garnered enough coverage as members of this promotion to meet notability requirements. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:15, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * With WP:CSC you can list alumni that are not notable for their own articles but notable enough to have attracted a reference from a reliable source. For example, the founders Lou Zygmuncik and Shawn Blanchard could be listed and sourced to Pittsburgh and other newspapers pretty easily. Anyone they dubbed HOF should probably be included. It's still going to have a bunch of one-time guests that they honored though. AngusWOOF  ( bark  •  sniff ) 21:40, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
 * From what I can gather CSC says there there are 3 types of lists.
 * 1 Every entry meets the notability criteria for its own non-redirect article in the English Wikipedia.
 * 2 Every entry in the list fails the notability criteria...(Note that this criterion is never used for living people.)
 * 3 Short, complete lists of every item that is verifiably a member of the group. (less than 32K)...However, if a complete list would include hundreds or thousands of entries, then you should use the notability standard to provide focus to the list.
 * The original list had something between 200 and 300 entries (I got bored counting them after 120 in the middle of the page). We're talking about small time semi-pro / amateur wrestlers, at best they will have got a mention in the local rag but it is very very unlikely that they will all be notable so list types 1 and 2 don't apply and as the list would have several hundred entries then for me type 3 applies with notabilty being the focus. So for me only those with a non trivial mention in a RS should be included regardless of whether they are HOF or not (as per WP:BLPLIST). This list will not run into dozens of members so can easily be kept in the main article as per WP:SPINOFF Dom from Paris (talk) 08:19, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * yet it has gotten multiple recognition from national media outlets? I will give you this list may not meet notability requirements, however, the very basis of the organization itself meets requirements. Gvstaylor1 (talk) 17:37, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
There is a Merger Proposal for this article. Any discussion on merging can go here. I think it is nice for the organization to be able to list their visitors/wrestlers in an easy to find location. I do believed it can be merged if there is a way to keep it clean on the main article... If not, I don't see why this can't be deleted.Gvstaylor1 (talk) 00:12, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * As I tried to explain to you the discussion to merge is in the right.place and is going.on here Talk:Keystone State Wrestling Alliance. Please.do not.try and start another discussion. If the organisation wants.to list their wrestlers they can do it on their own web page. WP is not a web hosting service. Dom from Paris (talk) 00:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * again, i am the creator of the original page. According to the requirements, this is where the discussion belongs. Re-read them. Gvstaylor1 (talk) 21:35, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Whether you created the article or not is neither here nor there you are the only major contributor you are aware of the merger discussion as you participated and as per the guidelines the target talk page is where the discussion talks place normally and there are links here and at the top of the article page so any person visiting this page is informed. Please just WP:DROPTHESTICK I will stop replying to any comments about this here...Dom out. Dom from Paris (talk) 06:33, 3 May 2018 (UTC)