Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BBC Sport Team


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:57, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

BBC Sport Team

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This article is pretty unwieldy and includes information that probably doesn't need to be aggregated. Many of the broadcasters and pundits who contribute to BBC Sport's coverage do so on a freelance basis, and their hiring and firing is rarely publicised, which leads to us having to use unorthodox and unreliable sources (there are three references to LinkedIn profiles, 28 references to tweets and quite a lot of links to internet forums). Some of the commentators listed don't even work for the BBC, they were simply the commentators on the feed the BBC was using (e.g. the Super Bowl announcers were from whatever broadcaster had the Super Bowl in the US that year, so Fox, CBS, NBC or whatever), and so could hardly be said to be part of the "BBC Sport team". Which brings me onto the article title: is the term "BBC Sport Team" really sufficiently formalised to warrant us using it as the title of this article. I think the fact that we have essentially come up with our own neologism for this fairly unconnected group of people tells all about the importance of this list article. – PeeJay 21:54, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 02:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
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 * Comment It's sort of a neologism. BBC sport do refer to themselves by saying "The BBC Sport team", the important part is the lowercase T, They mainly use it as a shorthand way of saying "Everyone here from BBC Sport...". List of BBC Sport commentators and presenters would be somewhere nearer a better tile. - X201 (talk) 11:48, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I accept that there are cases in here where you may not see them as the predominant team, particularly when a feed is used. The difficult arises in spotting this is the case, especially when I have seen many cases where the presentation team will say over to our commentary team and I believe they are the world feed team. We do also have to note that with the BBC Sport extra online broadcasts, these content are sometimes actually funded by BBC to broadcast and others they just use an already in place commentary team. However the basis is on those who make up the regular team. I accept that perhaps my edits have expanded who might be counted beyond where makes sense and would accept excluding world feed and making a consideration on the extra online content. I do however, particularly with the ability to see the changes in the main team, by the former section, as an important part to keep as a record and much of it has taken me ages to research. - Gloverhouse (talk) 17:02, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 08:43, 28 February 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   15:19, 6 March 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KaisaL (talk) 06:38, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Question - The article is mostly a large list. Would WP:TNT be a good idea if the article was kept? Foxnpichu (talk) 17:40, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails all of WP:LISTPURP, this is just a collection of poorly-sourced people who have been part of a BBC broadcast for a sporting event at some point. There is not a "team" in any sense of the word in evidence. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 05:59, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Topic does not pass WP:LISTN. Cheers, 1292simon (talk) 08:20, 22 March 2020 (UTC)


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