Template talk:Professional mixed martial arts organizations

message: What empirical or sourced criteria is used to determine whether a promotion is 'major' or 'other'? It seems like original research to arbitrarily make the cutoff K-1 Heroes, when it could be argued that EliteXC or IFL is on the same competitive level (in the business sense of the term).
My proposed criteria for 'major' promotions would be:
* National/international television presence
* National/international PPV events several times a year in two or more physical venues
* Official sanctioning as a professional MMA promotion (ie, conformation to Unified Rules in the United States)
Thoughts? --Bk0 (Talk) 19:51, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm reorganizing the structure of the template and reorganizing the promotions into the more objective classification of regions instead of status. It doesn't seem as if anyone is participating in this discussion and after someone added Art of War into the majors category, a cleanup had to be done somehow. hateless 01:58, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems like a more reasonable & empirical classification system. We may have to reclassify PRIDE in the future given that they are now under North American ownership and may continue to hold events there. --Bk0 (Talk) 00:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Major" vs "other"

message: It looks like some attempt to put orgs in order has made, which I agree with.  I think they’re due for some updating, though.
Here’s what I would propose (US orgs), based on:
TV deals and ratings
Fighter quality/rankings and name recognition
Live attendance
History
National vs Regional Presence 
Majors:
UFC – obvious,
Strikeforce – They’ve made huge leaps in the last 1-2 yrs.  Ratings and attendance for SF/WEC criss-cross, both have lots of highly ranked fighters.  But SF has much more recognizable fighters and a network TV deal that got 4-5M viewers (domestic, up to 25M worldwide) last time.,
WEC,
Bellator – A handful of ranked (Bloody Elbow Consensus) fighters.  Some great new TV deals and buzz – NBC, FoxSports, Telemundo(Spanish), Score(Canada).
Mid-size:
KOTC – National.  HDNet broadcasts.  Partnered with Mark (Survivor) Burnett.  Tony Lopez the only remotely ‘name’ fighter I see.,
Adrenaline – gets a few major names like Tim Sylvia, Ben Rothwell, Pat Miletich, etc.
After that, they get so close, I’d be fine with alphabetical order for ones with articles, then alphabetical for ones without articles.
Senor Vergara (talk) 19:06, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-Ordering Orgs

message: I have updated the template to allow that the promotions currently pwned by Pro Elite are not currently defunct.  Unless we hear differently from a reputable source, noone should alter this. Unak78 (talk) 12:57, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, agreed. (Have ProElite ever "pwned" any promotions btw? Certainly not the UFC in any case ;) --aktsu (t / c) 13:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Defunct Promotions

message: I would like to remove the organizations that do not have articles.  There is no reason they cannot be added when an article is created.  Without a source for the existence of these organizations, listing them here is original research.  If they are sourced in another article, they need to be pipelinked to that article.--2008Olympianchitchat 21:38, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redlinks

message: When you click the V/T/E links, they take you to the wrong place.  Instead of going to Template:Professional mixed martial arts organizations, they go to Template:Major Professional mixed martial arts organizations, which doesn't exist.  Didn't used to do that.  Anyone know how to fix?  Senor Vergara (talk) 23:15, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Now fixed.Rangoon11 (talk) 23:19, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Template Errors