Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2023 MAAC women's basketball tournament


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The result was keep. Seraphimblade Talk to me 10:56, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

2023 MAAC women's basketball tournament

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Another contested prod. Zero independent coverage, a single source from the tournament itself. Redirecting or draftifying is no longer an option.  Onel 5969  TT me 14:22, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
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 * Comment - I looked into this and the sourcing is a massive problem for this situation. The reasons are that there's a men's tournament going on at the same time with some of the same universities playing each other, there's one or two sites that had paywalls, some of the teams in this just played each other recently and there's a general lack of coverage of women's basketball due to people not caring about it. I feel like this can be sourced and improved, but the research here is like maneuvering around a mine field. KatoKungLee (talk) 17:09, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I haven't looked at this subject in detail, but those should be surmountable problems. You can avoid results about the men's tournament by adjusting your keywords. (For example, if you know the name of a specific coach or player on the women's teams, that could help narrow the results.) And paywalled articles are still fair game; you may be able to access them from a library. Zagal e jo (talk) 18:18, 25 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep. I'm not entirely sure what demonstrates notability with this specific case, but there are many accounts of the tournament on involved universities' websites, along with several local news articles talking about how local teams did in the tournament. Here's three of those.    Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  18:29, 25 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep - lack of WP:BEFORE, as mentioned, there's plenty of other sources here with a cursory Google News search. fuzzy510 (talk) 21:35, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Fuzzy510 What would you say were the WP:THREE best significant sources about the 2023 tournament that you found? Alvaldi (talk) 09:22, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. May end up gaining significant coverage from secondary sources in the future. Shadow of the Starlit Sky   (talk)  03:02, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep this is subject matter that we can assume will pass statutorily. I.e., we could have a rule that DI conference tournaments pass due to the WP:LOCAL coverage many teams get regarding their participation. As is shown above, this article passes by that manner.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 11:52, 26 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep. There is WP:SIGCOV by multiple independent secondary WP:RS establishing the subject’s notability and satisfying WP:GNG. Shawn Teller (he/her) (talk) 03:06, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


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