Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russia national bandy team

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The result was keep. Courcelles 00:27, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Russia national bandy team[edit]

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Same rationale as at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mongolia national bandy team. Apologies for not including it in that AfD. The fault is probably my own. (If the WP:TWINKLE user manual includes guidelines for mass AfD discussions, I can't find it.) Shirt58 (talk) 11:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep Lots of Ghits and the rest of my research seems to indicate Russia is an epicenter for bandy in the world, including the fact they hosted and participated in the 2010 Bandy World Championships. Redfarmer (talk) 12:16, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep. I can understand (sorta) the nominations for some of the other, lesser-known bandy teams, but this one nomination is odd to me. A search for "Russia" and "bandy" on Google pulls up millions of hits, many of which, like Redfarmer said, talk about Russia being a center for bandy and their various times hosting and winning the Bandy World Championship. As far as I can tell, the rationale for the AfD is that there is no evidence that the team exists, which is blatantly wrong. Bds69 (talk) 14:30, 30 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The article under discussion here has been flagged for {{rescue}} by the Article Rescue Squadron. SnottyWong ^prattle 17:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as bandy is, after all, a Russian sport and they appear to be probably the best team in the world, and therefore probably the most well-known. However, I still think that merging all of these national bandy team articles to something like List of national bandy teams would be the best result. The Russian team is probably the only one that has enough verifiable information for anything close to a full article. Perhaps it could be split from the list article. SnottyWong ^prattle 17:34, 1 November 2010 (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.