Talk:Nashua Pride

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With the sale of the team and change of name, shouldn't there be a new article for the new team? I suggest this article should be kept for just the Nashua Pride era. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:22, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hold on, this is worse than I thought. A whole lot of Nashua Pride info has been removed. I will be restoring the deleted info and strongly recommend that the American Defenders get their own article. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:25, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The new article for the Defenders is created: American Defenders of New Hampshire. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The articles should be merged, with all of the Pride info intact. I didn't mean to delete the Pride info when I created the Defenders page.JaMikePA (talk) 12:38, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, your deleting the Pride info made perfect sense for an article about the Defenders and supports my contention that the two articles should remain separate. If we were to merge the two articles, then we would have to preserve a cumbersome structure that would first list all the Pride info and trivia, then do the same for the Defenders, once they get going. I understand that historical names of baseball teams redirect to the teams' present names, but does that necessarily apply to teams which existed until very recently and which have developed quite a bit of Wikipedia material which does not apply directly to the new team?--Ken Gallager (talk) 13:33, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with JaMikePA, the articles need to be merged. There should be a history section or something similar on the page, with the name of the page as the current name. —Borgarde^talk 14:02, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely, merge the two. It's the same franchise, in the same city - just because ownership changes the name to sell more t-shirts doesn't mean that it's a completely different club. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicken Parm (talk • contribs) 05:29, 27 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Same franchise, same city, but completely different ownership. Don't gloss over that fact. --Ken Gallager (talk) 13:43, 28 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What difference does it make? Teams get sold all the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chicken Parm (talk • contribs) 19:06, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, merge ... same franchise, just different owners. Put a redirect on the Nashua Pride pointing to the Defenders page. 65.213.77.129 (talk) 20:07, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would definitely keep them seperate. The Nashua Pride was a totally different era than what is going to be the American Defenders of New Hampshire. The Defenders owners have changed a lot of things since they took over and the Pride should have a different page. Plus much of the front office and team have been changed so you should consider that as well. These really are two different teams. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fb2005team3 (talk • contribs) 00:26, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've rewritten the section on the sale of the team to make it less about Mr. Stabile's intentions. I omitted the implication that there were higher bids but that Mr. Stabile chose the Defenders based on their commitment to keep the club in Nashua. If this is a fact, please reinsert it, but it ought to be documented. --Spike-from-NH (talk) 15:06, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]