Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Other Mr. Basketball

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The result was already deleted -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:36, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other Mr. Basketball[edit]

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This article is about nothing in particular. It is a grouping of people who won the title of Mr. Basketball in their respective state that doesn't have an article yet. Not encyclopedic at all. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs/editor review)}~ 20:36, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this makes no sense; if the state's Mr Basketball winner list has not been created, the it should be created.—Chris!_c/t 21:55, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete With two people listed from South Dakota for '09 and '10, looks like this was a trial run to see what the reaction would be. As the template to the article shows, there are 24 states for whom a "Mr. Basketball" article is written. I'm not sure if the idea was to name all the winners in the other 26 states until articles could be created, but it's not that difficult to make an article called "South Dakota Mr. Basketball" of "South Dakota Miss Basketball". I'm sure someone will suggest moving the title, but "Other Mr. Basketball" shouldn't be a redirect to anything. Mandsford 22:56, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:19, 19 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Don't Delete/Delete As stated above, this article is intended to be a warehouse to hold male players who have been named Mr. Basketball in states that do not yet have an article listing all/a majority of past winners. The thought was to give recognition to all identified players, whether or not a comprehensive list was found for a particular state. I agree it may look senseless now since only 2 players, both from South Dakota, are listed. I ENCOURAGE help in identifying other players who would be appropriately on this list in order to make the list more meaningful. If you have a list, forward the citation/reference to me, and I will publish it if you prefer not to. Sadly, my research thus far has not produced a list for the states where a list has not yet been documented. The ultimate goal would be to have a list for each state that names a Mr. Basketball, but lists for the remaining states have not yet been found. That being said, I defer to the Wiki world. If you all collectively think that this article is worthless and not worth expanding, then delete it. I would prefer to expand this article as new players are identified. You will notice in the editing that players were formerly on this list from South Carolina. Once a list of all SC players was found, those names were deleted from this list and incorporated there. Jlhcpa (talk) 19:46, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- You could always just start an article in your userspace and move it to mainspace when the list is completed. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs/editor review)}~ 23:41, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
DELETED OK to delete. Creating author consents. Content now being warehoused as a subpage in my userspace. Jlhcpa (talk) 05:26, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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