Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2010-11 NBA Player Salaries

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Baseball Watcher 23:47, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

2010-11 NBA Player Salaries

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This was previously prodded, but now looking at the article it feels like an indiscriminate collection of information that looking at other years we don't have. Hasteur (talk) 21:29, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. It appears to be sourced, and attributed to multiple publications at that. I wish that we had this information available for other years, too, but that we don't is not a reason to delete this one list. coccyx bloccyx_(toccyx) 22:25, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Agree with above- we might as well start a tradition with it- have the salaries for every year of the NBA going forward. We can even do research and create some from years past Even if a few players are left out, they could still be useful articles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soxrock24 (talk • contribs) 22:31, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above comments. It is not at all indescriminate and of some encyclopedic valye I would say, Sadads (talk) 01:21, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment - This is not the sort of thing Wikipedia should be trying to do. A simple external link to STORYTELLER'S CONTRACTS or some similar site off the NBA page would get users up to the moment stats with the click of a button. As you will note from that site, there are bonuses, non-guaranteed provisions, and other contract concerns for each player. Nothing is as simple as it seems to be. It was a poor decision to launch this page, in my view, since the ultimate product, no matter how meticulously researched and maintained, will never match the easily accessible presentations of similar material on the web. We shouldn't feel that Wikipedia needs to publish itself every sports statistic — only to provide useful information that will get users what they need quickly and easily. In this case, that means a link to Storyteller or ESPN or whatever site tracks and produces these numbers. I don't know whether the solution is to delete this page — and if so, on what grounds — or just to shake out heads and move along. Probably the latter, but I leave that for others to decide. Going forward, I earnestly hope this sort of exercise isn't repeated. Carrite (talk) 12:58, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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