Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mid-America League


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The result was Merge to Heartland League. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-25 06:05Z 

Mid-America League

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Non-notable baseball league which operated for one season. Don't be fooled by the blue links for the teams - they just redirect back to the league page. Just 436 Ghits for any league named Mid-America League, which falls to 80 when the word baseball is added. League later became the Heartland League, so if anything, this information should go there. fuzzy510 00:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete The article itself does a good enough explanation of how it isn't notable. Mr.Z-man  talk ¢ 00:46, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge per Fuzzy510. What a suspiciously-created article, complete with all teams as circular links! I doubt that any of these teams have a hope of being notable enough to have their own page, so the links to them are silly—I have removed them. But as to the nom, what makes a league "notable"? "Small, small geography, short-lived" is certainly gonna cut down on the ghits (which isn't the be-all/end-all of notability anyway). I just added a ref to the article, which itself cites two published and reliable-sounding sources, so the thing is at least worthy of coverage in published works about minor-league baseball. But given that there's not much to say and the league was short-lived (reincarnating as another short-lived one about which there also doesn't appear to be much to say) maybe better to have a single article about them and their timeline than two more isolated articles. DMacks 03:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Violation of WP:V and WP:RS, since only source is an article from another wiki. This particular piece of information cannot be verified.-- Ed  ¿Cómo estás? 03:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment That ref, itself not reliable on its face, does list several hard-copy refs, which I have now added to the WP article. Don't know for certain the exact contents of those texts (hello pre-everything-digital age), but they do actually exist and seem likely that they would contain info to support the WP article. DMacks 03:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into latter team's article, per fuzzy. Alex43223Talk 04:20, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Heartland League, which appears to be largely the same operation, just with a different name. --Dhartung | Talk 04:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge --Mattarata 04:32, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. Resolute 05:30, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. C56C 06:19, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Heartland League. Daniel5127 | Talk 06:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge anything salvageable per above. John Reaves (talk) 07:10, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge --MarlaB 13:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The article has now been referenced and generally contains relevant information, one to keep. Telly   addict Editor review! 13:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge per pretty much everybody. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  13:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge into Heartland League per the reference I added to the Mid-America League article. Someone interested in independent baseball may wish to review the articles contributed to by 24.14.74.243 with the idea of merging many of them into Independent baseball-- Jreferee 16:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


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