Talk:Baseball-Reference.com

message: Please don't delete this page; it's notable, and the page asserts the notability (I see it's already been speedied twice). Don't be fooled by the low-quality site design: Google news has dozens of articles on it just right now: . The Evil Spartan 02:05, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, not only have major media outlets written about this website, this website is used as a reference for nearly every Major League Baseball player article and World Series article on Wikipedia. There has even been created a template  that is used extensive. There are nearly 5000 pages that link to Template:Baseballstats already. Kingturtle (talk) 05:39, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Baseball-reference is either notable or 95% baseball related articles site a non-notable website.  I also disagree with the statement that baseball reference has low quality site design, simple is better. --User:SelfStudyBuddyTALK-- 14:04, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

text: The article in Smith & Street's Sports Business Journal that announced the purchase of a minority interest in Baseball-Reference (and related services) also stated: "The Sports Reference sites combine to generate more than 1 million unique users per month, according to internal analytics. Company president and former college math professor Sean Forman has become something of a folk hero to baseball fans for the massive depth of data stretching to the 19th century and for the ease of navigation within Baseball-Reference.com."  Note the reference to the ease of navigation of the site.--Mack2 (talk) 16:13, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: Hello. Has it ever been considered to create an article about Baseball-Reference.com's parent site, Sports-Reference.com, and redirecting, merging or somehow connecting this page do that? The same would be done for the article on Pro-Football-Reference.com, Additionally, should the similar articles and/or for professional basketball, hockey, college football, college basketball and Olympic statistics run by Sports-Reference.com be created, and how? This all would be a bit complex, which is why I opened it for discussion. (A link to this discussion is on the talk page to the Pro-Football-Reference,com, hoping to keep all of the talk in one place.) — Michael J 10:26, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The site Baseball-Reference itself has been determined to be notable as a separate entity, so there's no reason for a merge. Sports Reference LLC would be an article about the parent company and would discuss the daughter sites that are not separately notable, and link to the sites that are with a short summary about them, per WP:Summary style. — KV5 • Talk •  12:26, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect the article on Sports Reference would have a paragraph or so on Baseball-Reference, with a note "For full article, see..." at the top. Am I correct? ... Also, is Sports Reference LLC as a whole notable enough to merit an article of its own? — Michael J 14:50, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That is correct; the paragraph would usually be preceded by  or some such. As for Sports-Reference, I can't really speak to that without seeing sources. Don't really have the energy right now to go seek them out myself. — KV5 • Talk •  03:24, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

text: Baseball-Reference as a distinct entity has received significant coverage from reliable sources, making it notable. If Sports Reference LLC (primarily a holding company although some statistics are hosted at that domain) has received similar coverage, then absolutely it deserves an article. If not, then it is not considered notable and a created article would be deleted. Existence is not equal to notability. — KV5 • Talk •  11:05, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if anyone still cares about this discussion, but I just wanted to provide an update. The article Sports Reference has recently been created to cover the parent company. — DeeJayK (talk) 20:41, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Parent page, moving and/or redirect?

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