Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seaboard Football League
This is an example of taking something out of context rather than actually arguing policy.  The context of the sentence that's being cited-- "any other top-level professional league" -- is "American football/Canadian football figures are presumed notable if they: Have appeared in at least one game in any one of the following professional leagues: the Arena Football League, the Canadian Football League, the National Football League, the All-America Football Conference or the United States Football League, or '''any other top-level professional league'''."  You can't just take the last five words of a sentence and argue that it means something more.  Let me explain this as clearly as possible.  applies to the notability of individual '''players''' in minor and semi-pro leagues.  It has nothing to do with the leagues themselves, so that's not a reason for deletion.  It's not even a ban on players, merely a statement that they are not considered automatically notable, but that's another story.  I recognize that this existed before most Wikipedia users were born, but this was a minor league (not a semi-pro league) in the early 1970s, and was, by Wikipedia standards, more notable than most in terms of the coverage by the press http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_user_ldate=1970&as_user_hdate=1975&q=%22seaboard+league%22+football&scoring=a&q=%22seaboard+league%22+football&lnav=od&btnG=Go and its inclusion in the book cited in the article.  It was the successor to the Atlantic Coast Football League, and, like ACFL teams, it wasn't unusual for NFL training camps to have exhibitions (involving the rookies) against Seaboard League teams http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A10F63F54127B93C2AA178CD85F468785F9 "Packer Excels at Quarterback As Jets Top L.I. Chiefs, 29-3", from the ''New York Times'', July 30, 1972.  Even with the having existed before the Internet era, the league was notable by Wikipedia standards
— User:Mandsford, 14:58, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NSPORTS (Wikipedia:Notability)