Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richmond Jazz

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 redirect to Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League. It is found that such teams do not have automatic notability, and that this article holds no claim to notability beyond that. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 01:17, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not sure what our practice is for these teams, which are neither college teams in the strict sense, nor professional. DGG ( talk ) 04:36, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as it's only a newly started summer team, not anything at all to suggest otherwise convincing notability, simply nothing else from there. I would also not suggest Drafting since there's no foreseeable hope here. SwisterTwister talk 05:21, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Collegiate summer league teams are generally notable. Some of them don't have articles, but they could if people would write them well, which this is. And regardless of whether it's college, professional, or somewhere in between, Division I college baseball teams are notable, as are professional baseball teams, so whatever you want to call it, it passes. Smartyllama (talk) 18:41, 15 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:56, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep  Needs WP:BEFORE attention, especially for the 100% of BLP violations.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:22, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I honestly wouldn't consider amateur summer leagues to have automatic notability. If they're notable they need to prove so, which this one isn't doing. Wizardman 11:56, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Even if you believe the topic is not notable, a WP:DEL8 notability delete argument requires that you also explain why the topic should not remain as redirected.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:05, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - I am not aware of any notability criterion that makes collegiate summer league teams inherently notable. No objection to redirecting if there is a suitable, notable target. Rlendog (talk) 18:38, 22 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, which lists the team as one of the participants in the league. I did an extensive search, but I could not find significant, in-depth coverage in secondary sources (per WP:GNG). The only secondary source that talked about the team in any depth was this article by a local USA Today affiliate. I would be happy to change my vote if other editors can demonstrate significant coverage in secondary sources, but until then, I think redirecting readers is the way to go. -- Notecardforfree (talk) 05:31, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League as a valid search term. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:06, 28 June 2016 (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.