Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bend Elks
Notability for |organizations is established if "A ... team ... has been the subject of significant coverage in secondary sources. Such sources must be reliable, and independent of the subject." I would note that this team has 158 Google news hits from 2008 alonehttp://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Bend+Elks%22+baseball&btnG=Search+Archives&ned=us&hl=en from newspapers that are independent of the team. It should be noted that Google News would only hit on articles that are still online from last summer. Many news articles go offline after a short period of time, so the actual number of articles was probably much larger. Some articles are rather more substantial than just reporting the score of the game such as this one http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070607/SPORTS05/706070352. How is this particular team any less notable than any of the other teams in the category (Category:Amateur baseball teams) or any of the many collegiate summer league teams located in the category's subcategories? Are you planning on putting all of these up for deletion in the near future? If not, it seems as though you are being biased against this one team in relation to the dozens of other teams that are similarly situated
— User:Kinston, 19:19, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ORG (Wikipedia:Notability)