Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Baseball
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Baseball
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Andrew Baldwin (baseball)
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- Andrew Baldwin (baseball) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The arguments for the 2011 AfD (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Baldwin (baseball)) still hold (doesn't meet WP:NSPORT or WP:GNG), but the target, 14 years on, isn't appropriate as he is no longer a player. Hence, with no suitable merge target, I propose deletion. Klbrain (talk) 09:32, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and Baseball. Klbrain (talk) 09:32, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Deltaspace42 (talk • contribs) 10:39, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Minnesota, Oregon, and Texas. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 11:01, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nominator's rationale. FaviFake (talk) 15:03, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- Weak keep due to presence of sufficient WP:SIGCOV. The Tacoma Weekly article counts towards this for sure. In addition, we find this feature from The Oregonian provides some sigcov from a prominent secondary source (also found here). Beyond these feature stories, we find sigcov elsewhere. Here is coverage from The Register-Guard about winning a Pac-10 award. This one from The News Tribune goes beyond a normal game summary and provided a little bit about his pitching style. Couple this with the oodles of routine game coverage, I think there's just enough here. Jordano53 15:42, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- The Oregonlive.com link returns a 404 for me, this is the correct one. Kelob2678 (talk) 07:29, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Keep per the references provided by Jordano53. Small amounts of non-trivial SIGCOV are provided in each reference, though I agree none of them are great. Per WP:NBIO,
If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability
. Frank Anchor 15:20, 9 April 2026 (UTC) - Weak keep: Coverage presented provides a narrow pass of the WP:GNG, albeit barely. Let'srun (talk) 17:40, 11 April 2026 (UTC)
- Keep per the coverage identified above. Kelob2678 (talk) 07:29, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
Pittsburgh sports lore
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this article is a gigantic, largely unsourced coatrack. none of the sources even mention "sports lore". if there is a useful article here, it's buried behind all the "Announcer reactions". i recommend blowing it all up and starting over. ltbdl (roll) 03:30, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
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- Delete Yikes! This is nearly entirely unsourced and is simply the authors' opinionated puffery of games and events they thought were significant. I see no reason why these should also be lumped into a single article and described as "lore". I'd recommend that you leave a notice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Pittsburgh though in case something belongs in repective teams' articles. Reywas92Talk 04:45, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- i've left a notice, but it seems to be a bit of a ghost town. ltbdl (squeeze) 08:27, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete WP:COATRACK as the nominator said. This is just a laundry list of trivia and amusing incidents that would make a good coffee table book to pick up at the Pittsburgh Airport, but not a WP article. I'm not about to check all 68 references but I would be amazed if a single one mentioned "Pittsburgh sports lore". WeirdNAnnoyed (talk) 11:05, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete: Stuff happened, but most of the sourcing is about the events themselves (or in non-RS), not mentioning a collection of "lore". I could see this being used as a list, but without much sourcing it's OR. Oaktree b (talk) 13:17, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: American football, Baseball, and Ice hockey. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete. Pure WP:OR. Cbl62 (talk) 18:57, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete. This is WP:FANCRUFT at its finest, failing WP:COATRACK and WP:OR. Some of the facts could be used in articles on the respective teams, but not as a standalone article. Flibirigit (talk) 20:45, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete: How this avoided notice for twenty years ... WP:NOTWEBHOST. Ravenswing 22:51, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per all above. Content about specific notable events is already included in those respective articles. Frank Anchor 13:11, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per everyone above. Pure WP:FANCRUFT. Best, GPL93 (talk) 13:00, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Sports in Pittsburgh as a sensible relevant target, in case there's anything worth merging later. Left guide (talk) 02:20, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Sports in Pittsburgh: As noted above this is both original research and fancruft, and should be TNTd even if it weren't. Despite this, there might be something worth merging into a team or league article at a later date, making redirection a valid alternative to deletion. Jack Frost (talk) 04:21, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Sports in Pittsburgh per above. Kelob2678 (talk) 07:12, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Sports in Pittsburgh per above. But delete wouldn't be bad either. (This article somehow has survied for more than 20 years being horribly sourced since the beginning.) 🚂ThatTrainGuy1945 Peep peep! 13:48, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- comment: as the nominator, i am completely fine with redirection. ltbdl (wish) 13:49, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Redirect to Sports in Pittsburgh per above. This article seems like a copy-and-paste slop job, violating WP:COATRACK, WP:OR, WP:FANCRUFT, and WP:GNG. There could be things that are worth merging, but this standalone article is already a lost cause. JTZegers (talk) 14:53, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete. The sourcing is not good so preferently no merge. Geschichte (talk) 16:50, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
- Comment I'd oppose a redirect. Sports in Pittsburgh is chock full of WP:FANCRUFT already. Best, GPL93 (talk) 12:04, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as a redirect would not have much value as a search term. Totally FANCRUFT. ~EDDY (talk/contribs)~ 19:24, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
- Comment I am in agreement with GPL93 and Editorofthewiki. I don't see the value in a redirect as it's not a likely search term. Cbl62 (talk) 19:32, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
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