Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BLOHARDS

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The result was keep. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me Please review me!} 17:34, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

BLOHARDS

I speedied this, but was asked by someone to restore it. Appairently they have been covered by newspapers (my talk page has some links now). Although A7 specifies "not-notable groups" as speedyable, there are as of now no policy/guideline/proposal on nobility of groups (or I couldn't find anything at least). So I'll leave it up to the larger community to decide whether this meets nobility or not in their eyes. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 00:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep sorry to the nom, but this seems notable. (unless we delete all baseball cruft as inherently non notable since they all think the "world" is USA plus 2 cities in Canada). anyway, when in doubt on the criteria, I fall back to the primary notability criteria. Amazingly, I found 2 sources in moments - Time and boston.com - they seem to be non trivial refs - I have added them to this page.Obina 01:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It needs to be worked on, but the creator brought these to my attention (I had placed the original speedy tag):

The Boston Globe, on three different occasions:[1][2] and [3]

Time Magazine's website (three articles):[4][5][6]

The New York Times:[7][8]

New York Newsday:[9]

The New York Daily News:[10]

And Sports Illustated:[11][12]

The article clearly needs to incorporate these, but I'd say they're easily more notable than most organizations of their kind. Leebo⁸⁶ 01:21, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Boston Red Sox for a fan organization section or alternatively, this kind of thing is what trivia sections should be for (rather than the usual "Marge Simpson made a one-frame half-line jokey reference about this in issue #67 of the Simpsons comics" kind of thing) Bwithh 02:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Why not start an article on MLB fan organizations and use this as the initial contents. There must be others. Fg2 08:13, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above. I had never heard of this before, so imagine this hardcore Sox fan's surprise. --badlydrawnjeff talk 15:24, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL Addhoc 14:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per above searches. Addhoc 14:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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