Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rockingham County Baseball League

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The result was keep‎. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:06, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Rockingham County Baseball League

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Fails WP:NSPORT. There is no indication of independent sources providing coverage beyond routine game coverage. –Aidan721 (talk) 13:53, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sports, Baseball, United States of America, and Virginia. –Aidan721 (talk) 13:53, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Appears to be the oldest amateur baseball league in the U.S. ([1]) and has extensive coverage across its near-century of existence, e.g. [2] [3] [4] [5], etc. - Newspapers.com brings up 217,000 matches for the name of the league and the first several pages of results all look like feature stories on the RCBL. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Haven't looked further to see what else may be out there, but none of these sources contain the WP:SIGCOV to meet the GNG. Let'srun (talk) 20:52, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What? This is full-page feature coverage, making your statement of none of these sources contain ... WP:SIGCOV not true at all. Really? BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:59, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:45, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep: This is a close call, as it appears that most of the newspapers.com results is just trivial and routine game coverage, but the second source from BeanieFan11 (apologies for somehow missing that one) combined with [[6]] shows this one clears the WP:GNG. User:Let'srun 02:10, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Thanks to Beannie. Meets our guidelines for inclusion. Lightburst (talk) 02:49, 21 October 2023 (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.