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Assess : newly added and existing articles, maybe nominate some good B-class articles for GA; independently assess some as A-class, regardless of GA status.
Cleanup : * Sport governing body (this should-be-major article is in a shameful state) * Field hockey (History section needs sources and accurate information - very vague at the moment.) * Standardize Category:American college sports infobox templates to use same font size and spacing. * Sport in the United Kingdom - the Popularity section is incorrect and unsourced. Reliable data is required.
* Fix project template and/or "to do list" Current version causes tables of content to be hidden unless/until reader chooses "show."
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Why are the coordinates of the arena considered an important piece of information on the list of teams? Wouldn't a listing of current Head Coaches make more sense and be more in line with how other sports are formatted? Hawksfan7358 (talk) 22:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Strong oppose for the league's article itself, weak oppose for the others. Despite sources almost always using the initials for North American sports leagues, that does not necessarily make the initials the common name. O.N.R.(talk)13:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Strong oppose since that is the standard for organizations and that is why redirects are created for easily recognizable abbreviations of such organizations. In addition, the nominator is making false claim in its nomination, because certainly not "all sources" use NBA. Even the league itself uses "National Basketball Association" in its press releases. – sbaio13:41, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose moving the main National Basketball Association article. Historical consensus for that page and the other main North American sports league articles has been to strictly follow MOS:ACROTITLE and WP:AT § Avoid ambiguous abbreviations, and thus avoid those abbreviations. As Sbaio implied above, these leagues and some media sources may still use the full names. And these abbreviations may not necessarily be recognizable outside the United States and Canada. As for the other detailed articles, I am neutral and they could be considered seperately as to whether they could be abbreviated like 2023–24 NBA season, because those more detailed page titles give additional specific context. Zzyzx11 (talk) 15:07, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment At this point, some !voters have worked around it by itemizing which pages they disagree on moving, while supporting the rest. —Bagumba (talk) 02:38, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose National Basketball Association → NBA. No opinion on the rest, but consider withdrawing and starting a new RM for them. Srnec (talk) 21:15, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Next best option. which should not be controversial, is creating redirects similar to NBA → National Basketball Association. Some of them do not have the concise redirect. - BeFriendlyGoodSir (talk) 23:14, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support all except standalone National Basketball Association The main National Basketball Association page's existing name is consistent with MOS:ACROTITLE and its Central Intelligence Agency example (...in view of arguments that the full name is used in professional and academic publications). The full "National Basketball Association" expansion can be seen on The New York Times, for example. For the others, where NBA is part of a longer descriptive title, the WP:CONCISE policy seems more applicable. The desciptive titles aren't ambiguous, as they are basketball specific. There are other longstanding examples such as NBA All-Star Game, NBA Finals, and NBA draft, where the meaning is clear, and the primary topic of NBA is anyways the basketball league.—Bagumba (talk) 04:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support all – the same case with FIFA. Those who oppose, what do non-English speaking people call it? You never see English speakers refer FIFA as Fédération internationale de football association, so why should NBA?
Support all but the first, and at the dinner I want the prize for being the first to mention WP:SHORTFORM and the examples therein. (Bagumba mentioned CIA, but not WP:SHORTFORM.)
Comment: Is the opposition assuming the readers are 2 years old and learning world sports culture for the first time? If so, it does not take a rocket scientist to put two and two together... or perhaps these newcomers should avoid these one-off pages and start out at the main articles then to learn the basics first before diving into these more esoteric topics. - BeFriendlyGoodSir (talk) 18:57, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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When discussing the NBA it should be edited to reflect that it's referring to a men's only league. The rhetoric does not clarify that clearly while reading it. It's barbaric to assume it refers to men only.
Trying to find it in the WT:NBA archives. I remember the discussion, and the big thrust was that the 70s examples are irrelevant as they are from decades before the establishment of the WNBA. The NBA is de facto a men's league. It's a plain fact. oknazevad (talk) 19:36, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Characterizing the NBA as a men's league is simply wrong, regardless of any prior discussion. It gives the erroneous impression that women are forbidden from playing in the NBA. If there was a woman with Chamberlain or Jordan type skills, the league would have no problem with her sitting on any team's roster. There are age restrictions regarding draftees, but no gender based rules regarding who can be admitted to the league. It's not the MNBA -- just the NBA.—Myasuda (talk) 00:52, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Correct location for Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks
According to the individual pages for these two teams, the locations are listed as Brooklyn, New York for the Nets and New York, New York for the Knicks, which match what's listed on this page. So, should they remain as is, or should the location for the Nets be changed to New York City as well, since Brooklyn is a borough of the city? Alielmi1207 (talk) 13:22, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
