Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nets–76ers rivalry


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The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 08:30, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Nets–76ers rivalry

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Fails WP:GNG with lack of significant coverage from multiple independent sources. I am not counting questionably reliable content farm coverage at SB Nation and Bleacher Report. The few reliable sources I did found are WP:ROUTINE coverage that reads more like hype. A 1999 New York Times article talks up the "off-the-court fireworks of the past month", but concedes the Nets have never had a "truly bitter rival". By 2003, The Philadelphia Inquirer still hasn't consider it an established rivalry, writing that it "could form the NBA's newest hot rivalry." For those who want to count SB Nation (and I wouldn't), it even wrote in 2011 that the "Nets and 76ers have never had much of a rivalry." While removing the WP:OR from the current article is surmountable, the lack of notability is not.—Bagumba (talk) 01:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC) Delete The two teams play and are geographically close but there is no proof of a rivalry....William 10:59, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete The only rivalry going on between these two seems to solely interdivisional; with the move to Brooklyn, there's no 'South Jersey/North Jersey' connection at all, and a couple of players going to the teams doesn't create a rivalry.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 05:45, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per the above - I'm unable to find sufficient coverage in reliable sources for this to meet WP:GNG, WP:NRIVALRY.  Gong   show  19:37, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:20, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete Sixers fan here. There might have been a little bit of a rivalry at the turn of the century, but that's about it. The other three Sixers rivalries that have their own page all have much greater histories than Sixers-Nets. I actually think SB Nation is (or at least has become) a decent source, but Bleacher Report usually isn't. Orser67 (talk) 15:37, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This "rivalry" is neither notable nor significant. Rikster2 (talk) 13:21, 8 March 2014 (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.