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March 16

Home Alone (2012)

With ABC Family's announcement of another movie in the Home Alone series (http://abcfamily.go.com/specials/25-days-christmas/blogs-details/new-home-alone-movie-coming-abc-family/943762), what is going to be done with all of the old "Home Alone 5" rumored posts all over Wikipedia? The two main subtitles were "Son of Kevin" & "Kevin Takes a Bride". Allen (talk) 02:56, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Do you have an example? I searched for Home Alone 5 and didn't see anything come up. Wikipedia isn't supposed to have rumors, it's all based on reliable sources. RudolfRed (talk) 03:09, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

I searched for "Home Alone 5" (quotation marks included), and I received 21 results. Among the more glaring examples are Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Home alone 5, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Home Alone 5: Son Of Kevin, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Home Alone 5, and User talk:Homealone fan. There might be many more, but I don't know where to look. Allen (talk) 10:27, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

None of those pages you linked require any action since they aren't real articles. If there is any actual text about this Home Alone 5 in any real articles, it should probably be changed or updated. This isn't a really big deal though- this sort of thing happens all the time. Staecker (talk) 11:30, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

The deleted article Home Alone 5 can be re-created when there is legitimate content to put there; it's normal for topics to be deleted because they're not notable and then be re-created when they become notable. --Colapeninsula (talk) 12:04, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Will these pages get deleted completely, or will there have to be a disambiguation or some sort? Allen (talk) 19:57, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Are you asking about those that you linked above? If so, why would we delete them or need to have any disambiguation? Dismas|^(talk) 00:53, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Soccer specific stadiums hosting American football?

So the Columbus Crew Stadium, The Home Depot Center, the FC Dallas Stadium (formerly Pizza Hut Park) and soon, the BBVA Compass Stadium are soccer-specific stadiums; that is, they are built for soccer (football to most people). But apparently, they also sometimes host college football games. Why is this the case? Couldn't they use other larger stadiums? Wouldn't this have defeated the purpose of building soccer-specific stadiums? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 15:15, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

The purpose wouldn't be to prevent any other use of the stadium, but to have it be ideal for soccer. Indeed, if they did solely use it for soccer, they would have to charge more, since they wouldn't have the additional revenue from other events to cover some of the construction costs. StuRat (talk) 15:24, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

(e/c)The college-football teams that are using these stadiums are relatively small, and probably don't have or can't afford to build their own dedicated facilities. They most likely rent use of the stadiums for their games, which gives the operating company an additional source of income, to say nothing about more chances for those working the stadium (concessionaires and such) to get more hours or hire more workers. Soccer-specific should probably be interpreted, in my opinion, to mean that's its primary intent, as opposed to an American-football stadium hosting soccer. Call it soccer-specific, not soccer-exclusive. --McDoobAU93 15:27, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Likewise, even baseball-specific stadiums, which normally have a configuration which isn't well suited for American Football, can sometimes be pressed into use as a football stadium. Most "classic" stadiums including Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, the Polo Grounds, and the original Yankee Stadium all, at one time, served as a home field for an professional American football team at one point. Candlestick Park was originally built as a baseball-only stadium (as the configuration shows), but had been reconfigured for football, and no longer hosts baseball. Basically, any sport whose field of play is not too large can be made to work in any arena. There have been baseball arenas which have hosted basketball games (the 1968 Notre Dame Irish/Houston Cougars game), football stadiums have hosted ice hockey games (the NHL Winter Classic), American football games in hockey arenas (the 1932 NFL Playoff Game), Boxing matches in baseball stadiums (the 1976 Muhammad Ali/Ken Norton rematch at Yankee Stadium). Basically, if money can be made, they'll play the game there. Being a "soccer-specific" stadium doesn't prevent event organizers and stadium owners from agreeing to use the stadium for other events. --Jayron32 22:12, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Even Wembley Stadium, perhaps the most famous football (soccer) stadium in the world, sometimes hosts American Football games[1]. --Colapeninsula (talk) 16:46, 16 March 2012 (UTC)