Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lansing crusaders

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The result was delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 22:22, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lansing crusaders

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Article is about an apparently non-notable Semiprofessional sports team. There is no readily apparent in-depth, reliable sources about this team. A sports team having a winning record is not in-and-of itself a measure of notability; my church softball team is pretty darned good, but it doesn't merit an article at Wikipedia. I suppose it is possible for a semipro football team to demonstrate notability, but this one seems to lack the sort of indepth, reliable sources mandated by guidelines such as WP:GNG and WP:NSPORT, so should probably be deleted. Jayron32 05:02, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - fails our charitably elastic standards for sports notability. --Orange Mike | Talk 05:09, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
4 google news hits [1] If it's semi-pro there must have been some coverage of the events it won, surely. Polarpanda (talk) 14:05, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Not necessarily. Semipro sports in the United States are often not covered by mainstream media. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:02, 8 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete Fails sports notability guidelines ukexpat (talk) 16:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Non-notable. Riddled in WP:peacock terms, probably to try and bolster notability, (eg. "are one of the all time winningest teams in the midwest" "one of the greatest teams ever") Lord Spongefrog, (I am Czar of all Russias!) 17:51, 7 December 2009 (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.