Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Index of Professional Sports teams in the United States and Canada


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The result was No Consensus (NAC). Mister Senseless&trade; (Speak - Contributions) 23:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Index of Professional Sports teams in the United States and Canada

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Just a collection of lists of sports teams. Is a collection of indiscriminate information and redundant to the lists of teams on articles of the leagues listed here. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 02:55, 24 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Although it's useful, it shouldn't be an article, it should be a category. Thedjatclubrock :-) (T/C)
 * Weak Keep - Strikes me a fairly useful. iM at  th ew   20  08  11:47, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. already have articles such as NBA, and NFL.  Dwilso  15:20, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep It is encyclopedic, and it is organized in a readable format that allows it to be maintained effectively. True, we have articles about the various leagues, but this provides, at a glance, the current information about which cities host which teams.  If one wished to be aware of which professional sports leagues have franchises in, say, Denver, and which do not, this is the most efficient way to see that information.  Almanacs (World Almanac, ESPN Sports Almanac, etc) have this same feature, such as a section that allows side-by-side comparisons of professional sports leagues, and it's worth keeping and building upon.  Mandsford (talk) 18:41, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There's an article like what you're describing over at List of U.S. and Canadian cities by professional sports teams, which has been around a lot longer than this article has and is much better formatted. NeoChaosX (talk, walk) 21:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - this is a great organization and it provides useful indexing that would be difficult to accomplish from categories alone. I think it should probably be renamed to "List of ...." Johntex\talk 18:51, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep and Move It seems like a useful, encyclopedic resource, but the title sounds awkward.  It might be easier to find and thus more useful if we moved the page per Johntex.  Red Phoenix  (Talk) 15:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete for several reasons. First, it's a list and not an index. Second, it contains only the upper level leagues in some sports (no Continental Basketball Association, no American Association, no Eastern Hockey League, no South Atlantic League (baseball), no World Team Tennis, and so forth. With the presentation as shown, just doing the baseball leagues would be extremely unwieldy.B.Wind (talk) 06:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


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