Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Notability
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Note that past AfD closures made prior to the development of these criteria (5/2/2008) cannot be used as precedents for keeping articles. Any future changes to the criteria must be proposed and debated at WP:BASKETBALL.
Player notability
The player section of this notability guidance has been superseded by WP:Notability (sports), and is included below for information only as a record of the previous guidance that the Basketball project came up with.
Players are deemed notable if they meet any of the criteria below:
- Have played for a fully professional club at a national level of the league structure. This must be supported by evidence from a reliable source on a club by club basis for teams playing in leagues that are not recognised as being fully professional.
- Have played in a competitive fixture between two fully professional clubs in a domestic, Continental or Intercontinental club competition.
- Have played FIBA recognised senior international basketball or basketball at the Olympic games.
- Pre-professional (amateur era) basketball players to have played at the national level of league basketball are considered notable (no other level of amateur basketball confers notability).
Should a person fail to meet these additional criteria, they may still be notable under Wikipedia:Notability.
Club notability
[edit]- All teams that have played in the national level of the league structure are assumed to meet WP:N criteria. Teams that have not played in the national level of the league structure must be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.
League notability
[edit]- All leagues that are a country's highest level are assumed notable.
- All other leagues are assumed non-notable unless they can be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria.