Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Longview Pirates


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The result was   redirect to Waco Pirates. Kudos for a good resolution. Mojo Hand (talk) 16:17, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Longview Pirates

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No evidence of notability per the standard required by WP:ORG. I don't believe the online source passes WP:ORGDEPTH and just based on the name the offline source appears to be the same. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 13:38, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Given the discussion below I'm changing my !vote to Redirect to Waco Pirates. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:56, 30 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Fully professional baseball team. The Baseball Guide is independent of Baseball-Reference.com. Alex (talk) 13:39, 28 December 2014 (UTC) Now that the Waco Pirates page has been made, I'll support a redirect to it. Alex (talk) 12:33, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep. As an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates major league team, this farm team is notable. Spanneraol (talk) 18:31, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Change to redirect to Waco Pirates per Wizardman. Spanneraol (talk) 16:21, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * This one confuses me. While this one would technically be notable, it served as a midseason replacement for the Waco Pirates who don't have an article. The best course of action would be to create Waco and redirect this here, since they are the same team. Wizardman  03:16, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Or you could just make Waco a redirect and write a bit more about them in the existing article. Spanneraol (talk) 03:23, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Waco was around for nearly a decade, this for .5 years. Why would I redirect the long-standing team? Makes no sense. Wizardman  16:04, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Good point... I created a stubby page for Waco that this can be redirected to. Spanneraol (talk) 16:21, 29 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - As a fully professional team in minor league baseball, I am confident that the team received enough coverage in local press, and possibly coverage in national sports papers such as the Sporting News, to meet WP's notability requirements. BTW, I'm generally not in favor of merging articles on minor league teams that played in different locations, since article readers are usually looking for information on teams that played in a specific city or locale. Since this team spent most of the season in Longview, I'd rather see a short article on the Longview team than a sentence in an article on the Waco team. BRMo (talk) 04:23, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yea, but in this case its the same team... The Waco team wasnt able to play that season because of the tornado so they temporarily moved to Longview to finish the year and then moved back to Waco the next season. 01:22, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, but the tornado occurred in May, so the team spent most of the season in Longview and I think it had a separate identity there. (The cities aren't close enough for fans from Waco to easily games in Longview.) I'd still prefer a separate article, though I'm not going to fight against consensus. BRMo (talk) 14:52, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
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