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Unsourced stub for more than 13 years. Search returns very little. Fails WP:GNG. Tried PROD, but it was deprodded because a minor league hockey team played there for a single year back in the 80s. WP:NOTINHERITED, etc. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:30, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

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:Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ice hockey-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:25, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

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• delete I'm having almost no evidence for this. There is a reference in a IEEE section history about a civic center which was not built, but outside the one hockey game reference, I see nothing. The coordinates (which I've removed) were for a different space used by a stage troupe. The article on the Schenectady Chiefs contradicts this one, and says that there was nothing more than a very temporary facility in the atrium of an office building. The only reference for that article does make the "civic center" claim but doesn't locate it, so I have to think this is an error of some sort. At any rate there really isn't enough evidence for the existence of this place. Mangoe (talk) 00:22, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
• Delete. I suspect that the claims that the Schenectady Chiefs hockey team played at the Schenectady Civic Center are incorrect. I found articles in the Schenectady Gazette from the time when the team was actually playing that referred to the team's arena as "Center City", which is also mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the team. See [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6qNNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CukMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3059%2C1056135], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6KNNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CukMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1625%2C241036], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=66NNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CukMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2733%2C1612671], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8KNNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CukMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1160%2C3460934], [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8aNNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CukMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3166%2C4006401]. See also [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/11/12/A-potenial-buyer-of-the-Schenectady-Chiefs-will-meet/7663374389200/]. An ad for a preseason game refers to the team as playing at "Center City Civic Center" (see [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ItBKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8ucMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5195%2C3835967] and scroll down). The whole premise of this article may be a mistake. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:45, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
• Delete per {{U|Metropolitan90}}. I can verify it exists, as can many reliable sources (although more Schenectady Gazette articles are behind a paywall). This article was no doubt created in good faith. I used to work up the street from it, which has (had?) an ice skating rink, a dining area (at one time a chain fast food restaurant), and amateur or semi-pro hockey games. I attended a gay hockey match there once. It's really quite small - I don't think they could fit more than 1,000 people comfortably. I recall that Union Dutchmen ice hockey sometimes used it as a practice rink when Achilles Rink was being built or repaired. Bearian (talk) 20:01, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

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