Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midwest Rampage

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 delete. Courcelles 00:03, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Midwest Rampage[edit]

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Speedy Deletion was declined because there was a trace of significance, however there is no trace of notability or sourcing. Dusti^*poke* 04:39, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NSPORTS. Non-notable minor league American football team. Erpert ^{Who is this guy? | Wanna talk about it?} 07:10, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Epic Delete Per Dusti Dusti<hey>TALK</hey> 04:39, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Erpert. Liking someone is not a ground for an article. (Aside - if you want real physical football, try rugby league or even union.) Peridon (talk) 21:33, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

PS When you use colours, could you cancel them when you get to the end? I just found I'd posted in red and I don't even know how to... 8-( Peridon (talk) 21:33, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Well, I can't agree with the physical thing, but yes, this article sucks and is definately NOT notable. Themane2 (talk) 22:15, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:45, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please advise on how to improve with notability or sourcing; still a work-in-progress. Disagree with comment about Minor League football not being physical--it's as real as any other level of football (and moreso than rugby). Rampage is only 1 of 9 teams in Iowa and Webster City is the second smallest town to have a team; all competition is from big cities such as Des Moines, the Quad Cities, Lincoln (NE), Omaha (NE)... Blaze finished as Runners-up to Oklahoma Thunder in World Bowl IV of the WFL. Again, please advise (new to Wikiworld). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keeper of Archives (talk • contribs) 00:49, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- Advice Hi newbie! I've been here for 22,000 edits and I still feel new sometimes too! My recommendation is that you look into WP:USERSPACE and edit articles there first for a while, then bring them in to the "mainspace" -- userpsace is designed for development of articles and is a great place to get started.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:21, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Any implied lack of physicality doesn't apply here and has no bearing. What does have bearing are the following: 1) Conflict of interest WP:COI comes up as the article appears to have been written by someone from the team or otherwise closely connected; 2) Failure to meet notability standards (WP:N, WP:GNG, and WP:NSPORT); 3) Contains original research (WP:OR); 4) miscellaneous violations of WP:GROUP (group is too local for coverage in Wikipedia) and WP:NOT (Wikipedia is not your free web hosting server); and then there's the links in the article that are just plain wrong! I'm reasonably sure that musician Drake Bell, American gospel folk group Joe and Eddie, Dateline NBC reporter Chris Hansen, actor Clint Howard, and any of the names on the disambiguation page for Brian Miller are not associated with this team. The article should be blanked immediately and moved to incubation because of that alone.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:14, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment After seeing the above post, I've delinked every person's name in the article. Most were red links anyway, but none of the blues seemed even remotely likely to be playing for this team. I've left the red linked teams alone, as they aren't causing confusion. I think the article creator just wikilinked everyone. probably thinking that was the thing to do. Peridon (talk) 23:08, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.