Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philadelphia Bulldogs


 * 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 keep. Per WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) — Yashtalk stalk 08:52, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Philadelphia Bulldogs

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Completely unsourced. Trivial and non-notable. Fails WP:GNG. Also see WP:SPORTCRIT. Created as part of a large swath of pages by a single user promoting the sport or roller hockey. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:18, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 18:14, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Lepricavark (talk) 18:37, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:58, 23 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep Professional major league team that was playing at the height of roller hockey popularity when it was on prime time ESPN which easily meets WP:AUD. WP:SPORTCRIT is about players, not leagues or teams. -DJSasso (talk) 19:14, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep This is getting ridiculous. Nominator should have done WP:BEFORE. Professional teams are notable, WP:SPORTCRIT only applies to players, and pages were not all created by a single user. Smartyllama (talk) 20:35, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep no evidence that nom made any effort to search for sources. Nominating with the same rationale for every AfD without (apparently) even checking to see if each article fits the rationale is a non-starter. Lepricavark (talk) 20:59, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep It's a Professional sports team, the before deletion policy was not seen through. Not convinced this article can't just be improved, instead of being deleted.--Yellow Diamond Δ Direct Line to the Diamonds  01:15, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep and Trout Slap It is truly disturbing to see what one editor with an axe to grind can do to destroy encyclopedic content. Every one of the articles that I have looked at as part of this March to the Sea of AfDs was sourced with minimal effort; this one was no exception. User:Zackmann08 has utterly failed to meet the obligations imposed under WP:BEFORE to "Search for additional sources, if the main concern is notability". This and other such articles should be kept (at a minimum, on a procedural basis), and efforts should be made to find the world's largest trout for slapping purposes. Alansohn (talk) 04:04, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, per Lepricavark. And these other AFDs all seem similar:
 * Articles_for_deletion/Orlando Jackals
 * Articles_for_deletion/Connecticut Coasters
 * Articles_for_deletion/Minnesota Arctic Blast
 * Articles_for_deletion/Los Angeles Blades
 * Articles_for_deletion/Empire State Cobras
 * Articles_for_deletion/Minnesota Blue Ox
 * Articles_for_deletion/St. Louis Vipers
 * Articles_for_deletion/San Diego Barracudas
 * Articles_for_deletion/Tampa Bay Tritons
 * Articles_for_deletion/Long Island Jawz
 * Articles_for_deletion/Las Vegas Flash
 * Articles_for_deletion/Pittsburgh Phantoms (RHI)
 * Articles_for_deletion/Ottawa Wheels
 * Articles_for_deletion/Philadelphia Bulldogs
 * Articles_for_deletion/Montreal Roadrunners
 * Articles_for_deletion/Roller Hockey International
 * -- do ncr  am  17:43, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. Blatant failure here of WP:BEFORE by nom. GauchoDude (talk) 18:40, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. This one seems adequately referenced but most of the others are not. Please do not blanket !vote Keep on all the others just to prove a point, even if that point has some merit. Many of them would only need to be AfDed again with a better nomination and we all have better things to do than think about roller hockey twice in our short lives. --DanielRigal (talk) 22:24, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - Professional sports team meets WP:SPORTCRIT. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:58, 26 January 2017 (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.