Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakers–Kings rivalry (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Davewild (talk) 07:58, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Lakers–Kings rivalry
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It was nominated for deletion in January 2008; the result at that time was "Merge/Redirect", which apparently did not actually occur. Since then, this supposed rivalry has become even less and less notable. I actually see no reason why anything should be merged to either Los Angeles Lakers or Sacramento Kings. I am opining an outright delete. --Nlu (talk) 03:50, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Things don't "become even less and less notable". If something was notable once, then it's notable forever.  Wikipedia rightly has articles about all kinds of things of purely historical interest.  But on this specific case the rough consensus at the last AfD was that it wasn't notable, which is why it was to be merged and redirected.— S Marshall  T/C 10:54, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * In this case, what I mean is that it really wasn't notable to start with, and any rationale for notability has dispelled itself with the passage of time. (See WP:FAME.)  --Nlu (talk) 16:01, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete I agree, not notable then, not notable now. The Kings slowly moved westward from Rochester to Cincinnati to Kansas City to Sacramento, though they've been in California for the last 25 years.  Even though they are in the same NBA division, they only meet 4 times in an 82 game season, and there's not the history of playoff encounters as with the Celtics or the Spurs.  I'd sooner accept a rivalry between the Lakers and the NHL Los Angeles Kings. Mandsford 20:38, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete If this deserves an article, then so do 10,000 other sports rivalries which are more notable.Nwlaw63 (talk) 21:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Not a traditional NBA rivalry. Jrcla2 (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - could you please provide a link to the first AfD instead of looping to this one? matt91486 (talk) 06:42, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * The automatic linker somehow didn't link it and I can't figure out how to get it to, but here's the link: Articles_for_deletion/Lakers-Kings_rivalry. (I linked it in my own initial nominating comments, but I admit it might not be clear enough.)  --Nlu (talk) 14:58, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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