Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lakers - Trail Blazers rivalry

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The result was speedy delete. Article creator and basically sole editor Jjin2536 has moved the article to Draft namespace (Draft:Lakers - Trail Blazers rivalry). Treating this as the equivalent of a CSD G7 ("Author requests deletion"), although the redirect to Draft was actually deleted as a CSD R2 "Cross-namespace redirects"). —Bagumba (talk) 12:06, 1 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lakers - Trail Blazers rivalry[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG with lack of significant coverage in multiple, independent sources. The biggest issue is that it fails the guideline WP:WHYN, namely that multiple sources are needed "so that we can write a fair and balanced article that complies with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy ..." Otherwise, editors will just cherry-pick facts from routine coverage in recaps of individual games, as opposed to independent sources that look at the rivalry as a whole. Moreover, routine coverage liberally uses the term rivalry to manufacture hype. At this point, it looks like calling this a "rivalry" is WP:OR. —Bagumba (talk) 08:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. —Bagumba (talk) 08:55, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 12:12, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. – Sabbatino (talk) 07:23, 31 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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