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Former good article nomineeNational Basketball Association was a Sports and recreation good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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Geo Coordinates for Little Caesars Arena

The coordinates given are apparently those of the old Palace at Auburn Hills. The correct coordinates are 42.341111, -83.055 per https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Little_Caesars_Arena&params=42_20_28_N_83_3_18_W_type:landmark_region:US-MI Lotterdata (talk) 02:36, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good eye. Apparently when the other parts of the Pistons' entry were updated to account for the move to Little Caesars, they didn't update the coordinates.
Which gets me thinking. Why do we have the coordinates in the first place? oknazevad (talk) 12:52, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The corresponding tables for MLB and NFL have them too. I found them useful for a project that finds hypothetical divisions that minimize the total intradivision distances. I had other sources for each league but wanted to check against one that was (mostly) more up-to-date. Lotterdata (talk) 16:45, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Oknazevad: In my opinion, listing coordinates is nothing more than WP:NOTCATALOG. In addition, most times the corporate headquarters of the team is in a completely different place than their main arena. – sbaio 17:42, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
A good point. I don't think they're meant to serve as coordinates for the teams, but in lieu of listing addresses for the arenas. A few years back there was a couple of editors insisting on adding coordinates to everything despite the lack of meaningful coordinates on some topics (like trying to have one coordinate point for a transcontinental highway), so it may be a holdover from that. But I still think they're of limited use and anyone wanting the exact location of an arena can click the link to the arena article. I don't think losing them here would be a detriment to article quality. oknazevad (talk) 19:38, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, I feel a bit useless info. Just tacked on to a table. If someone was curious, they could easily get the same info by clicking the arena page and seeing the location in the infobox.
Or is there a way to 'hide' the LAT/LONG behind the globe icon so the coords are neatly placed off to the side and now taking up so much visual space? Like a 'globe' icon inside the Location column after the city name? Moonraker0022 (talk) 16:20, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've been wondering this myself too. For nearly every other league, the columns are used to list Head Coach. Who comes to this page looking for arena coordinates over head coaches? Hawksfan7358 (talk) 04:00, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looming NBA Free agency clarificatoin.

The annual edit/revert season is among us and with free agency starting at 6:00pm EST tonight, I thought I'd come hear to clear up the logistics for angsty editors (like myself...).

Tonight, and over the next week, we should see many very reliable, yet not official, reports of players "planning to" and "have agreed to" free agency deals. This will of course also happen with trades usually being broken by Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania. These reports are very reliable, and the wording is very key in determining the likelihood of the scenario. While it is very likely that the moves stated clearly and confidently by these high level reporters are much more likely to come to fruition than not, we have seen scenarios where deals have fallen through due to medical concerns, not making a specific deadline, or even just a change of decision during moratorium.

With this prefaced, if we have a hard time updating the lead and info-box of players during this time, I think it is important to note this information in the Professional Career sections of a players timeline while specifically mentioning that it was "widely reported" or something along those lines. I feel that until is officially announced, the timeline should be updated with the new team and information while the info-box and lead could remain the same. RichieConant34 (talk) 15:46, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Link

In the short section "Controversies and Criticism", the link to Havervold, Kale's article "The Darkest Moments in the History of the NBA" is broken. However, that article has been archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20191013163753/https://www.sportsbreak.com/nba/the-darkest-moments-in-the-history-of-the-nba/ Please change the reference to include the archive link. It takes a while to load. DavidGries (talk) 11:19, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Coordinates versus Coaches

Why are the coordinates of the arena considered an important piece of information on the list of teams? Wouldn't a listing of current Head Coaches make more sense and be more in line with how other sports are formatted? Hawksfan7358 (talk) 22:09, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hawksfan7358: I agree that there is no reason to list coordinates. I guess it would be best if this was asked at WT:NBA since more editors will probably see it. – sbaio 15:22, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 February 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved the subtopic articles. There is consensus that National Basketball Association should remain as it is, as indiciated in MOS:ACROTITLE. While there are comments to rerun the other articles separately, there is a consensus to move the other articles listed in here, per WP:CONCISE and WP:SHORTFORM. – robertsky (talk) 12:42, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– Per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CONCISE. Unanimously all sources call the league "NBA". ScarletViolet (talk • contribs) 12:30, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: WikiProject Basketball has been notified of this discussion. -- ZooBlazer 06:47, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: WikiProject Sports has been notified of this discussion. -- ZooBlazer 06:48, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support all – the same case with FIFA. Those who oppose, what do non-English speaking people call it? You never see English speakers refer FIFA as Fédération internationale de football association, so why should NBA?
SpacedFarmer (talk) 11:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This is English Wikipedia. It's out of scope what non-English speakers call the National Basketball Association. —Bagumba (talk) 16:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
—⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 05:53, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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