Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ontario Red Wolves

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The result was merge to American Basketball Association (21st century). –Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 00:24, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ontario Red Wolves

This is a "non-team": It folded before it played any games! I fail to see how this merits notability. Tavix (talk) 23:14, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Professional sports teams are notable. --Mr Accountable (talk) 01:57, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: They never were a team. The planned franchise folded before they could get a team together. Tavix (talk) 11:49, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. If they had played even one game, they would have met notability, but as it is, "planned" equals "non-notable." Graymornings_(talk) 00:33, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into American Basketball Association (21st century) - it is a part of the ABA history as an announced expansion team that eventually was cancelled. If a source or two can be found, the story of the aborted franchise should be mentioned within the context of the league without giving it undue weight. B.Wind (talk) 05:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:59, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Either merge to American Basketball Association (2000–) or delete. Franchises in the current ABA are constantly coming and going. The ones that never even make it onto the basketball court cannot be considered encyclopedic enough for their own articles. It is tough enough to keep track of the active franchises. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:58, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and delete As long as the mention of the folding of this franchise doesn't get undue weight, merge it, but delete this page, since a stillborn franchise hardly is notable enough for an independent article. --Pstanton 07:43, 20 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstanton (talk • contribs)
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:09, 20 January 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.