Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Major League Baseball free agents


 * 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 Keep by Moving to List of Major League Baseball free agents 2006-2007. Cbrown1023 19:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball free agents

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Wikipedia is not a newspaper or Sports Illustrated. This is information which will have to be kept up to date as each player signs a contract, and, based on history, it's unlikely that this will occur. And once they're all signed, what happens to this article? User:Zoe|(talk) 23:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Although they will never be "all signed", the list is unmaintainable. Players become free agents all the time. -- Charlene 23:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete A list with no permanent entries? No encyclopedic use whatsoever. Resolute 02:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Alternatively, this could be transwikied to Wikinews. Resolute 02:10, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or Cleanup This article does not fall under any of the " grounds for deletion". This article does not fall under any " what Wikipedia is not" categories. It is both verifiable and not original research (encyclopedic quality). It also has a neutral point of view and does not violate Wikipedia copyright policy. Therefore I believe it has been inproperly considered for deletion and should be removed from this list. There are many articles that need deletion, just because some people have no interest in MLB free agents does not make this article one of them. RobDe68 19:51, 2 January 2007 (EST)
 * Move to List of Major League Baseball free agents 2006-2007 (then create a new article for each season and point this redirect there). The problem with the article at the moment is that it is news, not encyclopedic content. However, a list of the free agents for each season is both verifiable and notable. Cheers --Pak21 17:36, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and Move per Pak21. A historical series of FA's after each season would be encyclopedic. Neier 06:43, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, the content is only temporarily valid and (as for Pak21's suggestion) of no apparent historical or encyclopedic importance. Sandstein 11:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and Move per Pak21. The list has no interest for me personally, but there is enough coverage of baseball free agents each year to convince me that it has some historical/encyclopedic value.  Will it matter in 20 years?  A little - baseball fans have long memories.--Kubigula (talk) 23:30, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.