Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Average attendances of professional sports teams in the United States and Canada


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 22:55, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Average attendances of professional sports teams in the United States and Canada

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This article has been flagged as a concern for almost 5 years and no improvements have been made in that time. Please refer to WP:NOTSTATS and WP:LISTCRUFT; the list requires constant updating and is indiscriminate; there could, theoretically, be an infinite number of entries to the list. The list also fails the wider criteria of WP:GNG. So many questions can be asked. Why are USA and Canada grouped together for this article? What demand is there for this article? Is this merely just to prove that NFL has the highest attendance? Spiderone 18:36, 22 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  18:43, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete I have to agree with the nom, who covers the reasons well enough. What is worse is how it is treated as a static number when attendance varies greatly from year to year, making the information in the article less than useful and possibly misleading.  Dennis Brown - 2&cent; 18:57, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Interesting statistics, but not what WP is for according to policies noted in nomination. PS the NFL has bigger stadiums than most other sports and teams only play once a week for a limited season.Thoughtmonkey (talk) 19:05, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete interesting, yes. Useful?  helpful?  notable?  Nope.  Further, stadiums change configuration and design, so "average attendance" is not even a helpful measure.  Maybe "average annual attendance by year" -- I'd say this list fails not only notability standards but... ummm... SOMETHING that might have to do with valid statistical modeling and interpretation.  I don't think it's "original research" but it's just not statistically sound to even report this data as it is presented.--Paul McDonald (talk) 00:21, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America1000 12:28, 23 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete - no evidence of notability. WP:NOTSTATS. GiantSnowman 12:46, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence this intersection of stats is notable. Eldumpo (talk) 21:55, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Purely crufty stats. Fenix down (talk) 13:38, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Basically its all about stats which shouldn't be on here. Matt294069 is coming 23:27, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Note Also auto racing, especially NASCAR is not included.Thoughtmonkey (talk) 06:49, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * From its article: "NASCAR's Director of Security stated that the company holds 17 of the Top 20 regularly attended single-day sporting events in the world."Thoughtmonkey (talk) 06:51, 26 October 2016 (UTC)


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