Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Australian and New Zealand cities by number of major sports teams

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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:07, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Australian and New Zealand cities by number of major sports teams[edit]

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As far as I can tell this list is an out-growth of the sporting rivalry between these cities; the list serves no useful purpose. The selection of sports appears entirely arbitrary. The placement of teams within cities is also arbitrary (for example the St. George Illawarra Dragons has two stadia, neither of which are in the City of Sydney). These teams, cities and sports competitions all appear to have sufficient in-depth coverage, categories, lists and wikiprojects without the need to resort to this list. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:59, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:24, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:24, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:24, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 10:24, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. This is an arbitrary and not at all useful way of ranking these cities. Nick-D (talk) 10:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and/or merge with List of Australian cities by number of professional sports franchises (created May 2011), which may itself be up for an AfD. Both articles were apparently created as an ANZ version of List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises. However, there are different definitions of what constitutes "major" and/or "professional" sporting leagues. The North American lists are notable; the Australian lists are not. I ♦A 11:09, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As above, surely two lists of this type are unnecessary. Nwlaw63 (talk) 16:55, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:NOT Lom Konkreta (talk) 20:01, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:LISTCRUFT. Till I Go Home (talk) 01:36, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:LISTN to be stand-alone, and fails WP:OR to be merged anywhere. Title would fail WP:Identifiability if that were a policy. Unscintillating (talk) 02:06, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete OR. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 07:09, 31 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Per all the above. A snow close would appear to be in order.--Epeefleche (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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