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Basketball
[edit]- Minnesota Timberwolves-Detroit Pistons brawl (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Non-notable NBA fight, with no long-term significance. Yes, players were ejected, and there are upcoming suspensions, but the longest suspension handed down is 2 games ([1]).
Comparisons to the Malice at the Palace are hyperbole, and this will be forgotten in a month or so. Content from this article could be merged into the season articles for the Timberwolves and Pistons if desired. Natg 19 (talk) 19:09, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events, Basketball, United States of America, Michigan, and Minnesota. Natg 19 (talk) 19:09, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think this is as significant as most entries in Category:Brawls in team sports and I don't expect lasting coverage, so I favor deletion in the spirit of WP:NOTNEWS. However, this is a reasonable search term, so I'd like to redirect this somewhere. This could be to the season articles for the Timberwolves and Pistons, but why choose one over the other? Merging/redirecting to 2024–25 NBA season makes most sense, I believe. Once you flesh out the unnecessary content, there's a paragraph to add to 2024–25 NBA season. Pichpich (talk) 19:23, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- I am fine with this option. Didn't consider that target initially. Natg 19 (talk) 19:42, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- As the creator of the article, I think that a merger or redirect may be possible. However, I do feel like this event that caught national news should be considered as a maybe keep. I mean, there are 7 million articles on English Wikipedia don't you think that this isn't in the 7 million most significant event in modern history. CostalCal (talk) 00:19, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
- Neither of those are reasons to keep. We explicitly have the guideline WP:NOTNEWS. Geschichte (talk) 07:48, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
- delete if for no other reason that, after a single day, there's no way of knowing whether anyone will care about this even a month from now. Mangoe (talk) 03:49, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
- Delete or draftify per WP:NOTNEWS. It is possible that there can be WP:SUSTAINED coverage of this incedent down the road, though I do not find this likely (which is why I do not mind a move to draft space, the only "risk" to that is that it would be abandoned and eventually G13ed, which is not a big deal). Some content can be included in either of the team season articles. Frank Anchor 16:35, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- Delete. Not a terribly remarkable brawl even in a sports context. DarkSide830 (talk) 00:39, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
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[edit]Nomination of 2025 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament for deletion
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