Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sports in Evansville, Indiana

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. Pending no further opposition from the nominator or other editors, the discussion seems to be tending towards a keep consensus. (non-admin closure) Lourdes 16:29, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sports in Evansville, Indiana

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no indication the title of this article is a subject of notability. I find no books written about the subject of "Sports in Evansville", I find no magazine articles devoted to the subject of "Sports in Evansville". Of course sports in Evansville is covered in newspapers in Evansville, but I see no evidence anywhere of even a local newspaper article covering an overview of sports in Evansville. This is a fan page, nothing more. It is not an encyclopedic topic. John from Idegon (talk) 05:58, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Regards, KCVelaga (talk • mail) 07:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. Regards, KCVelaga (talk • mail) 07:26, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, topic is not independently notable. Stifle (talk) 13:01, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - If this must be deleted, you've got several hundred exactly like it for cities far less notable than this one. Notability is a property of a subject and not of a Wikipedia article. If the source material exists, even very poor writing and referencing within a Wikipedia article will not decrease the subject's notability. Further, once a topic has been the subject of "significant coverage" in accordance with the general notability guideline, it does not need to have ongoing coverage. Most importantly, editorial judgment goes into each decision about whether or not to create a separate page, but the decision should always be based upon specific considerations about how to make the topic understandable, and not merely upon personal likes or dislikes as appears to be the case here. Wikipedia is a digital encyclopedia, and so the amount of content and details should not be limited by concerns about space availability. Here, we have significant coverage and reliable sources. --YHoshua (talk) 13:38, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep there's enough content for this as a sub-page of Evansville, Indiana or as a WP:SAL of the various teams (past and present) that have Wikipedia articles. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:58, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A reasonable split from the Evansville article. If this could be trimmed to a level that it would fit within the city article, a merge would be fine, but for now better to keep it separate. --Michig (talk) 07:27, 26 July 2018 (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.