Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Major League Baseball players with four different teams in the same season


 * 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 delete. — TKD::Talk 06:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Major League Baseball players with four different teams in the same season
Unneeded trivial info, wikipedia isn't a sports alamac, see WP:LISTCRUFT, WP:TRIVIA and WP:NOT, prod removed, Delete Jaranda wat's sup Sports! 19:31, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Purely a collection of indiscriminate information. Why 4 teams/season? And are these players mainly notable for this fact, or for their skills? B figura  (talk) 19:34, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Some of them are notable for that fact I guess, others like Dave Kingman are clearly not, but they were Major League Baseball players and gets articles because of that, not because they played four teams in a season. Jaranda wat's sup Sports! 19:47, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. The inclusion criteria here are fairly arbitrary - why four and not three or five?  This does seem to be fairly stereotypical of sports trivia type stuff. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 21:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Four is the record, so five isn't possible but still trivial Jaranda wat's sup Sports! 21:26, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep In sports lore, talent and mediocrity are both celebrated, and the players on the list appear to have a little bit of both. Although baseball players are chattel, it is unusual for a person to be traded three or four times in the space of six months.  This list wisely sets parameters in that it doesn't include those players who stay within the corporate structure but move up in the ranks from the minors to the parent team.  Though I've not seen a table of this nature before, the information is easily verifiable from the Baseball Encylopedia or one of the many baseball reference websites, so sourcing is not a problem. Mandsford 21:39, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I never gave an issue with sourcing though, of course it's unusual, but we don't have articles on everything that is considered rare, it reaches WP:NOT though. Jaranda wat's sup Sports! 21:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * None of the WP:NOT items says "Wikipedia not a sports almanac".. Why can't it be? Sports almanacs are encyclopedias of  a sort. Spanneraol 16:56, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per this is trivia.  What about MLB players who were traded 5x in the course of a season?   This is just trivial information Corpx 05:18, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Four times is the record. Spanneraol 18:12, 10 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 16:32, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as unnecessary trivia.--JForget 22:51, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Truest blue 16:53, 11 September 2007 (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.