Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medicine Hat Cubs

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The result was delete. Mkativerata (talk) 20:24, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Medicine Hat Cubs[edit]

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Delete − This article is about a junior ice hockey team. The criteria for notability is given by WP:ORG. The primary criteria is that the team "has been the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject. A single independent source is almost never sufficient for demonstrating the notability of an organization." As the article stands, the only references are the club's own website (primary), the league's website (secondary, but non-independent) and the league cup's website (secondary, but non-independent). There is no evidence of any independent press coverage. I can't find any relevant or substantial Google hits either. The only relevent one says that "The Medicine Hat Club Cafe Tigers were a junior team that lost the semi final in the 1935-36 Alberta Junior Playoffs." They certainly don't meet any sporting criteria: they're not professional or national. — Fly by Night (talk) 01:36, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete − Minor hockey team. Hockey is big in canada and the way they create skill-level hierarchies is by creating many different leagues with lower and higher skill with players selected for such criteria. This is a non notable team and such sporting leagues and teams in such leagues are not notable.Curb Chain (talk) 01:56, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep − This is a Canadian Junior "B" Ice Hockey team, that needs to stay up! It doesn't make sense why just this one article might be deleted, but all the other Junior "A", "B", and "C" Ice Hockey teams stay up! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NuckGhostriderTPB (talk • contribs) 22:39, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note that the all or nothing argument should be avoided in deletion discussions. Each article's deletion discussion should be dealt with in isolation. It may be the case that other similar articles also need to be reviewed; but that has no relevance to this article's discussion. — Fly by Night (talk) 00:07, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ice hockey-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 02:43, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Minor team is not notable enough to have its own page. It would be better to merge it under Canadian Hockey or something along those lines.--Carnold30 (talk) 19:22, 4 July 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.