Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional sports teams

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 00:05, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of fictional sports teams[edit]

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Per our verifiability policy, if there are no reliable independent sources that discuss a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it. This article has no sources whatsoever, and is also an indiscriminate collection of information in the form of a contextless directory of entries. All the entries are bare text (not even redlinks), which makes it not much use as a navigational aid. Also, we do not cover sports teams in fiction as a topic, which we would need to do to justify a list of them as an encyclopedic topic. Reyk _YO! 03:42, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 05:50, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 05:50, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom I agree, it is too indescriminate to be adequetely maintained, Sadads (talk) 05:54, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Well, WP:ILIKEIT, and I'll probably save it to the computer on my desk, but I can't think of a policy-based reason to keep it. I think that some policy should probably be made concerning the "community effort" pages that Jimbo Wales et al. envisioned as part of the original concept of Wikipedia, but it's difficult to reconcile this now with the bar against original research. Mandsford 19:04, 8 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and Sadads. I think a well-sourced text article on the handling of sports in fiction would be a fantastic and encyclopedic topic (we don't even have an article on Sports movies, that's just a redirect to a list!) but a wildly indiscriminate list of every time a fake sports team is mentioned in any work of fiction whatsoever? No thanks. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I see some blue links in the mix. The Bad News Bears, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, The Mighty Ducks. Not certain how many of these teams are notable in the fictional work they are a part of, and what coverage they might have, but some of them are and do. Enough to make a list, surely. No sense not listing other fictional sports teams as well, as long as they are from a notable series. Dream Focus 21:47, 13 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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