Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sports teams, clubs and venues in Markham, Ontario


 * 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 of the debate was merge with Markham, Ontario (five votes to merge, including the nominator, who changed votes; two to keep; one to delete). I have now merged this information, and broken out the history section into a separate article, to control the size of the article. -- BD2412 talk July 7, 2005 03:39 (UTC)

List of sports teams, clubs and venues in Markham, Ontario
I don't think much needs to be said. Not notable enough for its own article. Maybe the information could be merged in the main article on this city (if we have one). As it stands, this is looking awfully like advertisement, or a tourism brochure, for the city. Delete. Redux 28 June 2005 07:05 (UTC)
 * Keep, collectively sports teams, clubs, golf courses etc, are highly notable. Kappa 28 June 2005 09:30 (UTC)
 * Merge (as NN in itself), and redirect. Proto t c 28 June 2005 09:36 (UTC)
 * Merge this info into the Markham, Ontario article and then delete or redirect. Nahallac Silverwinds June 28, 2005 15:11 (UTC)
 * Merge as per previous to Markham, Ontario article. Feydey 28 June 2005 18:42 (UTC) Change that to Keep, since the main article would be getting too big. Feydey 28 June 2005 18:42 (UTC)
 * I agree with the merge option, which I had signaled myself earlier, but as for keeping the present article as a redirect, seems unnecessary, since it's unlikely that anyone would type that title in the search box. Redux 28 June 2005 20:29 (UTC)
 * Comment: True, though for GFDL provisions I believe that either the redirect must stay to maintain author history or an administrator has to do a time-consuming task of cutting and pasting history. Double Blue  (Talk) 28 June 2005 21:13 (UTC)
 * Merge, per above. If you need to break out a section to keep the length down, break out the history, which makes for a meatier article, and which would comport with the more general Wikipractice of having separate history articles for geographic locations. -- BD2412 talk June 29, 2005 01:00 (UTC)
 * Delete. Absolutely no reason this type of information can't go in the town article. Gamaliel 29 June 2005 01:06 (UTC)
 * Merge with Markham, Ontario. JamesBurns 29 June 2005 05:18 (UTC)
 * DoubleBlue has a point about deleting the original article. For practical reasons, we might as well keep it as a redirect.  I also agree with BD2412: if the main article has to be broken for TOC reasons, let it be another section, one that can hold its own as a separate article.  So, it's merge contents with Markham, Ontario and redirect the List of (...) to it.  Redux 29 June 2005 13:51 (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.