Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Twins-Yankees rivalry

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The result of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 17:24, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Twins-Yankees rivalry

This article is about a fairly non-notable "rivalry," if such a rivalry even really exists at all. As a Yankee fan living in Minnesota, I can honestly say that this "rivalry" probably only exists as part of a larger "everyone wants to beat the Yankees" thing, which was previously mentioned on the New York Yankees page but now seems to be missing. At any rate it doesn't warrant its own article. RPIRED 15:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination.--Isotope23 15:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Delete per nom. Huh? A Twins-Yankees rivalry? (This just goes to show up the whole innately POV-haggard nature of sports rivalry sections.) RGTraynor 15:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, I don't see anything wrong with this article other than it being a stub. I don't think "non-notable" really applies here; why does a sports rivalry have to be one of the most important ones in order to have an article? I can imagine a perfect article, that would detail penant races and championship series played between the two teams. Just because nominator isn't aware of this as a rivalry doesn't mean the two teams aren't rivals. Mangojuice 15:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Comment: By this standard, again, you could call every baseball team a "rival" of every other team. Playing a couple of playoff series against each other doesn't create a "rivalry" except perhaps in the minds of a few people. It's certainly not widely noted. -Sparklemotion 17:53, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This doesn't even pretend to be notable or NPOV. At best, it's original research. Nothing has been written about a "rivalry" existing between these two teams. You could create an equally "notable" article on the Yankees and virtually any AL team.Sparklemotion 17:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-existant. I would not eve rate this in the top 100 rivalries in MLB, if I could even come up with that many. youngamerican (talk) 19:26, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Theoretically, you could create 495 rivalries among the 30 teams, 200 or so if you kept them within each league. Realistically, there are a handful of notable ones: Red Sox-Yanks, Cards-Cubs, Dodgers-Giants, some others. This isn't one of the notable ones. Fan1967 20:00, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, no more of a rivalry here than between most of the other 28 teams and the Yankees. BryanG 02:20, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete just because non-Yankee fans hate the Yankees that doesn't mean it's a notable rivalry, they're not even division rivals. Dspserpico 04:11, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete for Fan1967's math. --Ajdz 05:00, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: this is a notable stub. lets let it grow into something more. Interestingstuffadder 17:59, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• delete There are a lot of great rivalries in sports. This isn't one of them. --Bachrach44 19:24, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Yawn. Non-notable fabricated rivalry. Merge anything worthwhile into New York Yankees, which should mention that everyone and his mother outside of the New York area hates them. —Cuiviénen, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 @ 22:04 UTC
  • Comment Not to mention the fact that most people in Queens hate 'em too. youngamerican (talk) 13:20, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Fan-1967. Original research at best. Stifle (talk) 13:30, 26 April 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.