Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Longest currently serving coaches in professional American sports


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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 19:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Longest currently serving coaches in professional American sports

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Completely trivial page with no sources. WP:NOTSTATS is another reason to delete it. – Sabbatino (talk) 21:41, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Completely disagree with Sabbatino, page is totally relevant and credits the jobs of head coaches. Deleting this would be like deleting lists on US presidents' heights or how rich they are which are not under discussion for deletion. It also is not a dead end because links to several other articles. The page should stay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.61.211.195 (talk)
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 * Reluctant keep, but only if it is all-time, not just current (keeping it up to date would be a major pain). There are lots of lists of longest-serving coaches. Delete, but if somebody makes one about all-time tenures, it's got my lvote. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:40, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * The title of the article indicates that it will not be for all-time coaches.  PK  T (alk)  20:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete, in addition to the points raised by the nominator, this list duplicates information that's readily available in the lists of coaches for the respective leagues.  PK  T (alk)  20:24, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- RoySmith (talk) 01:12, 17 January 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 06:32, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - Arbitrary unsourced list. Timothy Joseph Wood  15:01, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete list seems arbitrary and redundant with other lists, i.e. List of current National Football League head coaches, etc. all of which can be re-ordered by length of service. That is, we already have articles to get this information from, which are organized along better principles, and the criteria for "professional sports" here seems arbitrary and random.  -- Jayron 32 17:50, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete - because of the many issues already raised. I also feel that there are NPOV issues. Why are NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA the only professional leagues considered? Spiderone  20:08, 26 January 2017 (UTC)


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