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Proposed deletion of Sangamner Municipal Cricket Stadium

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Proposed deletion of Malkangiri Stadium

The article Malkangiri Stadium has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No evidence this venue exists. Not in reference given. Google search finds a pic but not much else - non notable or a hoax?

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June 2015

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Nomination of Jiangnan University Stadium for deletion

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Proposed deletion of Miami Vice FC

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July 2015

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Proposed deletion of Philadelphia Union 2

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Proposed deletion of Cincinnati FC

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Proposed deletion of Orlando City 2

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Proposed deletion of List of association football clubs by revenue

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Nomination of List of association football clubs by revenue for deletion

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I appreciate that you regard the article as a work in progress and are intending to add further sources to it, but your main one - that Google document - appears to be wholly unreliable, and the others (as best I was able to reach them) appear to be general discussions of the topic and do not provide the level of detail necessary to support the article. Also there's no indication that the information you're combining from these different sources reflects the same kind of measurement, or even the same time frame. I don't think you can do what you are trying to here within Wikipedia policies, at least not in this way. Perhaps the solution in the meantime would be for you to move the article to your sandbox and work on it there until you've figured how to sort out these issues. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 11:05, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. Again I appreciate that you're working on the article but in the meantime you cannot remove the "Articles for deletion" template message at the top. If you have comments on why the article shouldn't be deleted, you should state them there and let the process run itself out. Also - the article you linked to - sports leagues with revenues over 50MM euros - may or may not provide support for an article that goes down as far as 5MM euros, per team. I really think you should work on the article outside of live article space until it is in a condition to be published. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 11:41, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Also - please stop adding that Google document as a source for your edits. It looks like just a list compiled by some guy with no apparent credentials, and as such it is not a "reliable source" for Wikipedia purposes. I have removed it in the couple of places I've found it. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 11:50, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

A couple of tips

Hey, Stadiumhopper - I've looked over a few of your edits and thought I'd offer a couple of suggestions for ways to ensure good editing of the encyclopedia. The first is, use the Preview button! Two or three of the links you added to List of association football clubs by revenue lead to dead-ends; and, while I was able to Google them and find generally what you might have intended to link to, I couldn't find the specific document. Using the Preview button to make sure your links work is helpful! (Also - can you go back and fix them? Thanks.) Next, pay attention to context. You added both the Big 10 and Southeastern Conference to the article, List of professional sports leagues by revenue, but neither of those is a professional sports league. Likewise when you changed Usain Bolt's sport from "track and field" to "athletics" here, it created a category that didn't match any other on the list, wasn't really correct, and linked not to a sport but to a disambiguation page. As you go forward, think about each edit, and double-check it before you make it. This is live material, and when you make a mistake the encyclopedia is wrong until someone comes around to fix it! Thanks - JohnInDC (talk) 12:26, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Stadiumhopper, please pay attention to what you are doing. Again please use the Preview button. Your edit here broke some internal citation links and they have to be fixed. And again, please pay attention to context and the substance of your edits. [Here you changed the name of the football team from the correct name to a misspelled one. You need to be more careful - these edits are verging on disruptive now. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:56, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Also please read WP:reliable to gain an understanding of what is, and what isn't, a reliable source. Self-published content, blogs, and the like are generally not deemed reliable and can't serve as sources. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 14:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Sources

Stadiumhopper - when you make changes, you should supply a source for your edits; and also be sure that the change you make are consistent with the sources. For example, at Sporting Kansas City you changed the team's stadium capacity to 21,000 when the stadium's own website confirms that the figure is 18,467 for soccer - see here. This is important; when you make changes based on your own knowledge or supposition, other editors can't tell whether you've done the correct thing or not. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 13:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Most valuable sports clubs

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Article simply mirrors a portion of a list prepared, as of a particular date, by a staff blogger at Forbes, and as such is unsuitable for a standalone article

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Soccer stadiums

Hello. Please use the | soccerstadium = field in the college athletics infobox when adding soccer stadiums to infoboxes. Also, please do not remove a field as you did in this edit. Ahern Fieldhouse deserves to be there, too. Thanks. Corkythehornetfan 22:10, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of US soccer clubs listed by stadium capacity

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Questionable and incomplete sourcing, substantially OR, with no indication of what criteria determine whether a team is or is not to be included on this self-described "partial" list of teams and their stadiums

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Average attendances of sports clubs

What is this article supposed to be about? It doesn't say which sports these teams play. Deb (talk) 16:08, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Average attendances of sports clubs

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Unexplained collection of attendance figures from a variety of sports, with no clear connection to the sources; OR

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Nomination of Average attendances of sports clubs for deletion

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Proposed deletion of The 100 professional sports teams having the most fans on the social networks

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Indiscriminate (and expressly incomplete) list of questionably sourced information.

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Repeated creation of dubious "list of" articles

Stadiumhopper -

You have surely noticed that the "list" articles you are creating are being proposed or nominated for deletion almost as soon as they are created (and not just by me). It's hard to summarize the essential, and generally unfixable problems with each of these articles, but the gist is that, just because you can make a list of something, doesn't mean it has a place here. See, for example, WP:NOTSTATS. I suggest you read the deletion discussions (one complete, one ongoing) to help you understand what the problems are - they can be found at WP:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_association_football_clubs_by_revenue and WP:Articles_for_deletion/Average_attendances_of_sports_clubs. Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists#Style also has useful information about what kinds of things are appropriately included in stand-alone lists, and WP:OR and WP:Synthesis will give you some help in understanding how far Wikipedia editors can go (not far) in creating new articles by combining information from a variety of different, unrelated sources. I urge you to look at all of these. I am sure that it's no fun for you to spend time creating a list article, only to see it deleted; and it's no fun for other editors either to seek their deletion. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 02:46, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

This link may summarize it better than any of the foregoing: Wikipedia:Listcruft. JohnInDC (talk) 11:06, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

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August 2015

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Nomination of US soccer clubs listed by stadium capacity for deletion

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Nomination of Average attendances of non-football clubs for deletion

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Sockpuppet investigation

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