Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of professional sports team owners


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The result was Keep. JERRY talk contribs 02:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

List of professional sports team owners

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This seems to be a load of things bundled into one list. I wouldn't mind seeing a list for each individual sport (e.g. List of Formula One team owners; List of soccer team owners), but having this seems a bit overkill. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. D.M.N. (talk) 13:32, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - according to the page itself, the list includes anyone who has ever owned a sports team. Given how many sports teams have gone through many owners in their life, and there are hundreds of thousands of professional sports teams around the world, this list could go on forever. Dreaded Walrus t c 14:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Extrapolation to the limits of the absurd is almost never a very good argument in favor of deletion, save for those occasions like "List of White People". I do agree with DMN that this would be more useful if it were split up into individual articles (NFL owners, MLB owners, English league owners, etc.).  It's not indiscriminate, since it matches the owners to what they owned.   Since the identity of a franchise owner is just as relevant as the identity of the coach or manager, the topic itself is relevant.  I'd suggest leaving this up long enough to merge the information into existing "owners of teams" articles, spinning off what's left, and then deleting. Mandsford (talk) 16:02, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Basic search indicates one article List of NFL franchise owners that is only about current ownership. I didn't find an equivalent for MLB, NBA or NHL.  Mandsford (talk) 16:08, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Categorize? The list seems to add no new information other than to organize it. It's also incomplete. I notice they only had recent owners of the Chicago Cubs, for example. If you replace the list with some appropriate category, and the "succession boxes", then you wouldn't need the list anymore. Any volunteers for that work? FYI, the list has been around since November 2006, when User:Tecmobowl created it. However, he has nothing new to say about it, as he's been banned from wikipedia since last summer. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 16:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * There's also the question of team Presidents. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes not. During Bill Wrigley, Jr.'s ownership of the Cubs (which is not on Tecmo's list, as he only starts with the son, Phil) the President was Bill Veeck, Sr. But under Phil and his son Bill III, Phil and then Bill were the President. But once the Trib bought the team, they've had a succession of corporate-suit "Presidents". Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 16:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Gives more information than a category: sport, team, years. That's useful enough to have a list as well. DGG (talk) 05:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Granted, it needs much work. But it has some valid reference value and is similar in concept to other lists such as List of current Major League Baseball announcers, etc.  JGHowes talk  -  18:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


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