Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sports rivalries


 * 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. JForget 02:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

List of sports rivalries

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 * Strong Delete This page is just a jumbled list of various sports "rivalries" with little attempt to discriminate between significance of rivalries, and also has numerous bias within it. I don't feel this is a useful article on Wikipedia and the information contained in this jumbled list is either already contained elsewhere or could be merged into other articles. The list of rivalries is also largely unreferenced, and much of it appears to be original research. Jonathan McLeod (talk) 18:22, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


 * And thanks for formatting it wrong, leaving me as the ONLY PERSON ON THE WHOLE WIKI who can fix broken afds. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 18:32, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * And therefore the ONLY PERSON ON THE WHOLE WIKI who keeps banging on about it. Why not keep the behind-the-scenes work behind-the-scenes? Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 01:13, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 *  Delete, if not clean-up: I am nominating despite my effort in the past to add sources and cleanup only for those that are of high significance, amongst those that will fade to insignificance in a few years time which would had been deleted.

Before nominating, I would like nominators to ask themselves this, how do one define the significiance of rivalries, considering there is no guideline for this. Those who follow sports knows rivalries is a common occurence in sports and they come and goes, if not, what is the real purpose of sports.Donnie Park (talk) 18:39, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, I am willing to allow a keep, only if highly significant rivalries are only allow to be included. Donnie Park (talk) 23:35, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I am dropping my delete vote, considering this list deserve better than the current state that it is in, which I had been doing as much to rectify whenever I have the time before this AfD nom. Donnie Park (talk) 17:55, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:43, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:44, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Given that there are sources available for every one of them. Appropriate summary. Wikipedia  isn ot limited to "high significance" It would be good, though to have an explicit  criterion for inclusion.    DGG ( talk ) 21:03, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia may not be limited to "high significance", but that would have made this list less indiscriminate considering that rivalries will always occurs in sports, plus rivalries come and go every season and some of these listed there are short term that was only good for one or two season (most of these listed under auto racing for example).


 * If you can find every sources like you said you can, you can do, though I prefer to include those that is highly significant (those that meets the third reliable source guidelines, plus those that have its own article or a book about the rivalries). For me, I tried and couldn't find some, therefore, apart from some I removed that I considered insignificant, I added add on those without sources with removal in mind later on, hoping that somebody will find sources for it with all others to add in later, this was just before this list was nominated for AfD, but then do I want my life devoted to this site forever as we all got a life. Donnie Park (talk) 23:35, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep An excellent article with lots of good sources which testify to the notability of the general concept such as The top 10 greatest rivalries in the history of sport. I have added another citation. Colonel Warden (talk) 23:58, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep If the lead-in of this list clearly defined what is and what is not a sports rivalry, there would be little discussion about its continued existance. Establish clear, concise inclusion criteria and enforce them by sourcing entries that meet that criteria and eliminating those that don't.  In other words, bring the list into compliance with WP:LIST and its a keeper.--Mike Cline (talk) 01:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - It's very clear that notable sports rivalries exist, with the Red Sox – Yankees rivalry springing to mind immediately. The list needs to be cleaned up, and not deleted.  One mechanism to clean this up would be to list only rivalries that have articles with the assumptiont hat they are notable, or else would/will get deleted otherwise. - Whpq (talk) 17:43, 2 March 2010 (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.