Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Baseball

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Many of the baseball-related deletion discussions center on questions of notability. In this case, the guideline Wikipedia:WikiProject Baseball/Notability (WP:BASE/N) may be helpful.

Baseball

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Stephen Kahn

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Page is for a baseball player who did not reach a top league (he reached Double-A) or play in a top international tournament (he was on a collegiate national team).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sloopyploop (talk • contribs) 13:47, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. Sloopyploop (talk)
Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2025 November 7. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 14:12, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople and California. Shellwood (talk) 14:25, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep per WP:SKCRIT criteria 1. Nominator has not made a deletion rationale based on anything at WP:DEL-REASON, or based on any criteria at WP:Notability or WP:NSPORT or WP:NOT. We don't delete biography articles because a subject hasn't reached some arbitrary bar of achievement. Our inclusion criteria is based on other measurements such as sourcing. The nominator hasn't made their case based on something actionable.4meter4 (talk) 14:31, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Golden pitch

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This is not a notable term or concept. WP:RECENTISM given the 2025 World Series is at play. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:44, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports and Baseball. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:44, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: I have added a number of additional sources to this page, going back to 2016 when the phrase was coined, and including additional sources outside of the original research paper. Doffbhoya123 (talk) 16:42, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Sourcing might be recent in the article, but there are mentions of the term from 2023, 2018 [1], [2]. The second source in particular has a bibliography that seems to go back to the 1920s, suggesting a long history of the term. Oaktree b (talk) 20:14, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: A whole academic paper on the subject, from 2016 [3] Oaktree b (talk) 20:17, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Plenty of history behind the term. LionTank (talk) 20:33, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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