Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Musashi Heat Bears

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The result was delete. Wizardman 20:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Musashi Heat Bears

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Very recently established semi-professional baseball club in Japan; I couldn't establish that it meets WP:CLUB or WP:GNG Boleyn (talk) 19:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletion discussions. lavender|^{(formerlyHMSSolent)}|lambast 00:06, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Baseball-related deletion discussions. lavender|^{(formerlyHMSSolent)}|lambast 00:06, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:44, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Fully professional baseball team. Alex (talk) 03:57, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Only a semi-professional team, and does not appear to satisfy the WP:CLUB criteria. --DAJF (talk) 01:54, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment regarding whether it is a professional team. The league's article describes the competition as semi-professional, with players earning a standard salary of 150,000 per month, with performance bonuses of up to an extra 50,000 per month. The Japanese article expands on this by saying that each player signs a "professional contract". However, it also clarifies that players only get paid for the seven months of the year that the league is active, and that they have a support system to help athletes find temporary work during the off-season. A person could not live in Japan on an annual salary of 1.4 million yen (the maximum possible payment including all performance bonuses). So I do not think it is possible to say that the team is part of a league of fully professional players. But if an athlete getting paid approximately US$10,000 to US$15,000 is enough to call them professional, then I stand to be corrected.

Otherwise, the question must then turn to whether there is enough independent coverage to support the notability of the team. I would like to do some more research before commenting further on that. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 07:37, 14 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:CLUB. I have no problem, however, if enough sources are found in the future to reinstate it. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 17:25, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.