Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NBA International

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 keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 03:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NBA International

Looks like original research. I don't think this has much encyclopedic value. It also has no sources for any of it. Metros232 00:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• Neutral, The NBA appears to tabluate this information, and the wiki article is far from complete, or accurate. Could be meaningful if it's filled out correctly, then again it changes so much that it may not be encyclopedic. --EazieCheeze 00:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Changing my recommendation to Keep and expand, per Vengeful Cynic and other discussion. --EazieCheeze 19:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep but with the caveat that it would need to be rewritten (even to the extent of accuracy). There are other articles on foreign-born players in various sporting leagues, and they seem encyclopedic enough. BigHaz 00:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. No notability stated or implied for this stuff, either. Kudos to EazieCheeze for finding the source material, but I don't get into the variations and flavors of statistics that sports fans seem to enjoy, nor do I see the value in collecting every stat for WP. Tychocat 08:52, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, clean-up and expand 216.141.226.190 12:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Clean-up and expand, satisfies notability and has encyclopedic usefulness. --Vengeful Cynic 15:08, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• keep per Vengeful Cynic. --Wnmnkh 19:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment since it seems a lot of people want to keep this, does anyone have a suggestion for a title for the article? NBA International sounds like a television station that broadcast NBA games in Europe. Metros232 19:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Merge there is quite good information in this article, and I feel it should be merged into in NBA and be given its own section hoopydink^{Conas tá tú?} 20:44, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and Expand, almost all "minor" sports leagues have pages and they are definitely of encyclopedic/ reference value.--JD79 00:20, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. This is exactly why I think the article's title needs to change. People will think it's another division of the NBA or something along those lines. Metros232 00:22, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - Metros232 most have missed the source I gave under "Sources". The 06 season is clearly from the NBA website. I created this page as a way to talk about the international effect of the NBA. Both the effects of the league and the effects around the world, as the league is making the sport more popular. But, I guess nobody went with it and exand it. Chaldean 03:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
  • No, I see that link at the bottom. And I see that it leads to the 2001-2002 rosters. But if you went through and counted each one of those and tallied where each player was from, it's original research. And it's not "clearly" from the NBA site since you didn't cite it. Metros232 03:40, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• keep and expand please this is a important topic we should cover Yuckfoo 20:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, I would say merge into NBA, but it already has a long paragraph discussing this topic. Recury 00:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep although it needs clean-up and expansion. Unpublished data is original research, but tabulation of published data is not (unless it advances a position). -- NORTH ^talk 20:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

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.