Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Long Island Jawz


 * 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. Per WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) — Yashtalk stalk 08:50, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Long Island Jawz

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Completely unsourced. Trivial and non-notable. Fails WP:GNG. Also see WP:SPORTCRIT. Created as part of a large swath of pages by a single user promoting the sport or roller hockey. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:13, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 18:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 18:41, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep Professional major league team that was playing at the height of roller hockey popularity when it was on prime time ESPN which easily meets WP:AUD. WP:SPORTCRIT is about players, not leagues or teams. -DJSasso (talk) 19:16, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Everything about nomination is wrong. WP:SPORTCRIT only applies to players, professional sports teams are notable, and pages were not all created by the same user. Stop wasting everybody's time. Smartyllama (talk) 20:31, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep no evidence that nom made any effort to search for sources. Nominating with the same rationale for every AfD without (apparently) even checking to see if each article fits the rationale is a non-starter. Lepricavark (talk) 20:57, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Lepricavark. And these other AFDs all seem similar:
 * Articles_for_deletion/Orlando Jackals
 * Articles_for_deletion/Connecticut Coasters
 * Articles_for_deletion/Minnesota Arctic Blast
 * Articles_for_deletion/Los Angeles Blades
 * Articles_for_deletion/Empire State Cobras
 * Articles_for_deletion/Minnesota Blue Ox
 * Articles_for_deletion/St. Louis Vipers
 * Articles_for_deletion/San Diego Barracudas
 * Articles_for_deletion/Tampa Bay Tritons
 * Articles_for_deletion/Long Island Jawz
 * Articles_for_deletion/Las Vegas Flash
 * Articles_for_deletion/Pittsburgh Phantoms (RHI)
 * Articles_for_deletion/Ottawa Wheels
 * Articles_for_deletion/Philadelphia Bulldogs
 * Articles_for_deletion/Montreal Roadrunners
 * Articles_for_deletion/Roller Hockey International
 * -- do ncr  am  17:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. Blatant failure here of WP:BEFORE by nom. GauchoDude (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep  Trackinfo (talk) 02:03, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep but not for the reasons above. Reference material is thin on the ground but there is a passing mention in the New York Times. Ironically, that is in an article about how the whole sport is (or maybe, was, as this dates to 2011) in decline. That is the only Google News hit. The team seems to have lasted less than a year and its main claim to fame seems to be that it is mentioned in a lawsuit. I don't see any harm in having a stub, particularly if it were referenced to those two sources, but I see zero chance that it will ever be a proper article. --DanielRigal (talk) 21:06, 25 January 2017 (UTC)


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