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I realize this was just made, but I wanted to ask if this list included defunct teams, in which case I could add a few more teams. Tampabay721 ( talk) 01:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
No I didn't include defunct teams to this template. If you would like you could add them to it. The only problem is, it isn't a current sporting team in Florida, but i guess it's still A sports team in Florida. Hatmatbbat10,a Wikipedian ( Talk) 01:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that this template should include the rookie-level Gulf Coast League. Sure, it's the lowest level of affiliated baseball possible, and it doesn't have much of a local following (by design, really), but it is a league of professional teams. Sliver7 ( talk) 23:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I've done quite a bit of work on this template, but more needs to be done. I've removed as many defunct teams as I could find and added teams that have been created since this was update. However, a major question is, which leagues should be included? Do we really need the rookie-level
Gulf Coast baseball league? Or the
Lingerie Football League? And why the
Women's Football Alliance but not the
Florida Football Alliance? Additionally, the
USL Premier Development League is referred to as the "top amateur league in the country", and will be something like the fourth level down in the soccer pyramid. We also have the
W-League and
Women's Premier Soccer League, which are second (or third) level leagues. All of these leagues seem to have a high level of turnover in their teams, judging by how many I had to prune. Do we really need this level of detail?
College athletics is another thing. The section is a mess. We had two
NAIA teams (there are 10 in Florida), but not NCAA Division II (or III). I've added NCAA Division II, but this adds far too much length. Most other similar templates only list NCAA Division I, which is probably the way to go here. However, we should not try to separate them into "FBS"/"FCS"/"Non-football", as it's far too complicated. For instance
Jacksonville University is in the "non-football"
Atlantic Sun Conference for most sports, but has a football team in the "FCS"
Pioneer Football League. The other templates only list which schools have Division I teams; that's what we ought to do here.--
Cúchullain
t/
c 15:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
As this template is meant to list current teams, it's currently far too early to list Orlando City Soccer Club as an MLS team, since as of 2013 they aren't scheduled to take to the field for two years. It also looks awkward to have them listed under both USL-Pro, where they will play through 2014, and under MLS. We shouldn't list "announced" teams too far in advance; if we were doing that I can think of at least one other announced team for 2015, the Jacksonville NASL team, we certainly shouldn't include that at this stage as it doesn't even have a name yet.-- Cúchullain t/ c 14:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Is there any reason that WP:NOTABLE organizations, such as schools that are not in NCAA Division I should be excluded, as expressed by USER:Tavix?
In an edit caption, Tavix says that other states include only division one, which I found to be incorrect in seconds, , examples include Indiana and Illinois. In my opinion, if they are notable, they are notable whether it meets a single editor's sensibilities or not. Jacona ( talk) 17:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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I realize this was just made, but I wanted to ask if this list included defunct teams, in which case I could add a few more teams. Tampabay721 ( talk) 01:49, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
No I didn't include defunct teams to this template. If you would like you could add them to it. The only problem is, it isn't a current sporting team in Florida, but i guess it's still A sports team in Florida. Hatmatbbat10,a Wikipedian ( Talk) 01:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that this template should include the rookie-level Gulf Coast League. Sure, it's the lowest level of affiliated baseball possible, and it doesn't have much of a local following (by design, really), but it is a league of professional teams. Sliver7 ( talk) 23:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I've done quite a bit of work on this template, but more needs to be done. I've removed as many defunct teams as I could find and added teams that have been created since this was update. However, a major question is, which leagues should be included? Do we really need the rookie-level
Gulf Coast baseball league? Or the
Lingerie Football League? And why the
Women's Football Alliance but not the
Florida Football Alliance? Additionally, the
USL Premier Development League is referred to as the "top amateur league in the country", and will be something like the fourth level down in the soccer pyramid. We also have the
W-League and
Women's Premier Soccer League, which are second (or third) level leagues. All of these leagues seem to have a high level of turnover in their teams, judging by how many I had to prune. Do we really need this level of detail?
College athletics is another thing. The section is a mess. We had two
NAIA teams (there are 10 in Florida), but not NCAA Division II (or III). I've added NCAA Division II, but this adds far too much length. Most other similar templates only list NCAA Division I, which is probably the way to go here. However, we should not try to separate them into "FBS"/"FCS"/"Non-football", as it's far too complicated. For instance
Jacksonville University is in the "non-football"
Atlantic Sun Conference for most sports, but has a football team in the "FCS"
Pioneer Football League. The other templates only list which schools have Division I teams; that's what we ought to do here.--
Cúchullain
t/
c 15:56, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
As this template is meant to list current teams, it's currently far too early to list Orlando City Soccer Club as an MLS team, since as of 2013 they aren't scheduled to take to the field for two years. It also looks awkward to have them listed under both USL-Pro, where they will play through 2014, and under MLS. We shouldn't list "announced" teams too far in advance; if we were doing that I can think of at least one other announced team for 2015, the Jacksonville NASL team, we certainly shouldn't include that at this stage as it doesn't even have a name yet.-- Cúchullain t/ c 14:01, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Is there any reason that WP:NOTABLE organizations, such as schools that are not in NCAA Division I should be excluded, as expressed by USER:Tavix?
In an edit caption, Tavix says that other states include only division one, which I found to be incorrect in seconds, , examples include Indiana and Illinois. In my opinion, if they are notable, they are notable whether it meets a single editor's sensibilities or not. Jacona ( talk) 17:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)