Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Montréal Expos

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IMO, we should redirect to the new team if the old team does not have enough info in Wikipedia to have a standalone page, which is not the case with the Montréal Expos.  Of the above list, the Brooklyn Dodgers may be another candidate to have it's own page. ... The NFL Raiders won't sit still, so let's keep redirecting the page. :-) BTW, is there a page in Wikipedia about moving professional sports franchises ?  That's a COTW, eh ? -- PFHLai 22:47, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
*When a franchise moves, so with it moves its records. The Los Angeles Dodgers article lists the team's championships. The Sacramento Kings article lists the 1951 NBA Championship won when the team was in Rochester and called the Royals. Who is the all-time stolen base and all-time triples leader for the Baltimore Orioles franchise? George Sisler, who did it when the franchise was in St. Louis. Kingturtle 23:36, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: Because of the way that Major League Baseball has handled the relocation of the Montreal Expos to Washington, DC, I think the Expos page should remain as is.  There are plenty of Expos fans who are not going to follow the team to DC and already are angry that the Expos history has been airbrushed by MLB.  The people in Montreal are angry about how their team was taken away from them, at least leave them the history of the their team.  Wikipedia is not owned by MLB, there is absolutely no reason why the Montreal Expos article cannot be kept and give Expos fans like myself a place to honor Nos Amours without having to look at a bunch of stuff about the Nationals. - --Mretalli 00:26, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strong Keep 

message: One thing which hasn't been brought up is the fact that each team is a company, and Wikipedia doesn't start separate articles when a company moves or changes its name (IBM, for example, didn't take its current name until 1924, 11 years after incorporation and 36 years after its founding - it's not based in the same city anymore, either; yet the article for IBM covers the entire history of the company, regardless of name or location). I think the decision to keep separate articles in this instance was a purely sentimental one, which doesn't reflect well on an encyclopedia. MisfitToys 23:51, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
*That is an excellent point...and i touched on that point during the voting: Travelers Group redirects to Citigroup; WorldCom redirects to MCI; Bell Atlantic redirects to Verizon Communications; GTE redirects to Verizon Communications. as far as i can tell, the ONLY time a stink has been raised about such a redirect is in the case of Expos/Nats. Kingturtle 01:51, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Companies