The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC) reply
Nomination for deletion Article for supposedly famous and influential University of Miami alumni group connected with Drew Rosenhaus and "dedicated to dominating the fields of business, politics, and sports by any means necessary" fails WP:V for reliable sources. Current article only has a couple blog links for references.
Yes, there was a previous afd in October 2006 but this was speedy closed as the nominator didn't actually want to delete and seemed to have confused afd for a merge debate forum.
Now,about those blog links:
1) The Fantasy Sports Trades Blog post directly references [1] this November 2005 Wikipedia article which is the only apparent source for the "Miami Mafia" claim. The Wikipedia article statement is unsourced.
2) Yes, the second blog is on the Fox Sports website but its also a fan community blog written by some random guy who's a contestant in a Fox sportswriting competition (see the red sidebar on the right [2]), not actually by a professional sports writer on the Fox staff. This source is referred to in the current article as if it is an official Fox sports news report.)
Google and Factiva searches:
Screening a google search to filter out "miami mafia" hits related to Opposition_to_Fidel_Castro gives ~378 hits, mostly spam or wikimirror sites [3].
Factiva news and magazine database search gives zero hits for "miami mafia" + "Drew Rosenhaus". 62 hits on google [4] - basically just wikimirrors and spam sites.
Factiva gives 3 university of miami hits for "miami mafia".
These Factiva hits are all passing mentions:
Conclusions:
1) Current article is based on unreliable sources - a fan blog entry and a blog entry based on an unsourced wikipedia article.
2) No indication of more reliable references from general google (nothing on google book either [7].
3) Factiva brings up very few uses of the term which are all different. None of them related to Drew Rosenhaus. None of them suggest a group of Miami alumni "dedicated to dominating the fields of business, politics, and sports by any means necessary".
4) Recommend deletion of this article's content, removal of the related content from Drew Rosenhaus and University of Miami, and redirect to Opposition to Fidel Castro
Bwithh 04:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC) reply
The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC) reply
Nomination for deletion Article for supposedly famous and influential University of Miami alumni group connected with Drew Rosenhaus and "dedicated to dominating the fields of business, politics, and sports by any means necessary" fails WP:V for reliable sources. Current article only has a couple blog links for references.
Yes, there was a previous afd in October 2006 but this was speedy closed as the nominator didn't actually want to delete and seemed to have confused afd for a merge debate forum.
Now,about those blog links:
1) The Fantasy Sports Trades Blog post directly references [1] this November 2005 Wikipedia article which is the only apparent source for the "Miami Mafia" claim. The Wikipedia article statement is unsourced.
2) Yes, the second blog is on the Fox Sports website but its also a fan community blog written by some random guy who's a contestant in a Fox sportswriting competition (see the red sidebar on the right [2]), not actually by a professional sports writer on the Fox staff. This source is referred to in the current article as if it is an official Fox sports news report.)
Google and Factiva searches:
Screening a google search to filter out "miami mafia" hits related to Opposition_to_Fidel_Castro gives ~378 hits, mostly spam or wikimirror sites [3].
Factiva news and magazine database search gives zero hits for "miami mafia" + "Drew Rosenhaus". 62 hits on google [4] - basically just wikimirrors and spam sites.
Factiva gives 3 university of miami hits for "miami mafia".
These Factiva hits are all passing mentions:
Conclusions:
1) Current article is based on unreliable sources - a fan blog entry and a blog entry based on an unsourced wikipedia article.
2) No indication of more reliable references from general google (nothing on google book either [7].
3) Factiva brings up very few uses of the term which are all different. None of them related to Drew Rosenhaus. None of them suggest a group of Miami alumni "dedicated to dominating the fields of business, politics, and sports by any means necessary".
4) Recommend deletion of this article's content, removal of the related content from Drew Rosenhaus and University of Miami, and redirect to Opposition to Fidel Castro
Bwithh 04:43, 24 January 2007 (UTC) reply