Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ohio Bootleggers


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The result was soft delete. WP:REFUND applies. Lourdes  04:40, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Ohio Bootleggers

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Appears to fail WP:GNG with no depth of coverage on the team itself. A WP:BEFORE shows only passing mentions in independent coverage from when they played team that had coverage. Has apparently played in various leagues, but who owned the team and what they were actually members of at any given time seems to lack verifiability. Yosemiter (talk) 18:24, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:25, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 20:25, 3 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:GNG with lack of significant coverage from multiple, independent sources. Routine game coverage like this from The Post Journal would not count.—Bagumba (talk) 10:32, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment the editor keeping updated articles on teams in The Basketball League has gone inactive, and this team appears to be defunct. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 04:30, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * may be the same editor based on contribution history, and if not, has similar interests and has made the newer team articles in the league. However, I am not sure what that has to do with WP:GNG as I would have nominated even if the creator was still active. I typically give claimed professional teams the benefit of the doubt and presume they will eventually receive coverage, and then nominate when it seems that they will not, whether that is because it folded or simply never received coverage in any extended period of time. I am also not sure if the team itself is defunct, but it is no longer a member of TBL. From what I could find (mostly via social media), the Bootleggers existed in the Premier Basketball League and then the North American Basketball League. Halfway through the first North American Premier Basketball season, they joined the NAPB to replace the folded Ohio Cardinals. The odd part is, at that time, all Vancouver Knights social media pages changed names and became the Bootleggers and solely covered the Bootleggers. The old Bootleggers' website though was also updated to state they were now in NAPB. The Knights' website also was taken down, even though the league continued to report that they were playing games under new ownership (but were never named, although there was briefly a new instagram account for the Knights). After the season, Bootleggers seem to still exist in one of the lower level leagues, I believe the NABL, but since all of this was WP:OR it lacks WP:V which is what led me to nominate it. Yosemiter (talk) 13:58, 7 January 2019 (UTC)


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