Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/US soccer clubs listed by stadium capacity


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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 04:18, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

US soccer clubs listed by stadium capacity

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Contested PROD. The article is a haphazard assortment of poorly-sourced, practically unverifiable information and OR. It is an expressly "partial" list of stadiums claimed to be used by a variety of North American-based soccer teams, based on two sources of questionable reliability and utility. Both sources must be mined, deeply, to confirm the list here, which was constructed, state-by-state, by hand. The article does not explain what the criteria for inclusion are, or what teams or stadiums might be omitted or why. Finally both sources generally round capacities to the nearest 1,000, and contain obvious errors even then - e.g., two of the first three entries are simply wrong: Gillette Stadium has a soccer capacity of 20,000, and football capacity of 68,756 - not "68,000" as shown here; similarly CenturyLink Field. JohnInDC (talk) 12:12, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment. It appears from my quick check of a check of the first few stadiums in the list, that most of the capacities are correct and a reference exists for it on the stadium page. So it appears to be a valid information for which references exist in the linked articles - they only need to be copied to this article. The Gillette, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial & Vanderbuilt Stadiums' numbers are rounded and the Yankees Stadium number appears to be off but based on initial reports. Not sure if it merits deletion - the only reason I can think of is if the selection of which stadiums to include could be original research. My only other concern is whether this article was created to boost the Google ranking (ie the SEO) of the references included in the article. -- Trödel 12:35, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium is also wrong, for soccer (it's 20,000, not the 45,000 shown on the chart), as is the as-yet-unbuilt Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which reflects the general seating capacity, not the soccer capacity. Also  at least two teams, Atlanta United and FC Cincinnati haven't even begun to play yet.  JohnInDC (talk) 15:06, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete I am seeing almost no reliable sourcing for the general topic. Nwlaw63 (talk) 14:05, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete There already exists this article List of U.S. stadiums by capacity which renders this one obsolete. Spiderone  08:27, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 18:46, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 18:50, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. Duplicates information at List of U.S. stadiums by capacity. Completely unsourced, so there's nothing here worth merging. ~ RobTalk 13:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
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