Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2017 Grand Rapids FC women season


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:26, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

2017 Grand Rapids FC women season
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Despite the team winning its league championship this season, the article still fails WP:NSEASONS for two reasons. First, the team plays in United Women's Soccer, a Division II league in the United States, not a top professional league. Second, WP:NSEASONS says that "[t]eam season articles should consist mainly of well-sourced prose" [emphasis in original], and this article contains none of that. The lack of prose in the article causes it to run afoul of WP:NOTSTATS, which is another reason to delete it if not rectified. This championship season ended more than 12 months ago, and no Wikipedian has made an effort to compose any significant prose describing it. It is questionable whether there is enough independent, reliable coverage from which information can be drawn to write enough prose that would make the article consist mainly of well-sourced prose. While there is some local media coverage, this is routine and not significant and fails to rise to the level needed to satisfy the presumption of notability under WP:GNG. That guideline indicates that even where an article achieves the presumption of notability, the results of a common-sense discussion should prevail. Common sense tells me that the 2017 season of the Grand Rapids FC women was not notable enough to merits inclusion in the encyclopedia. The source used for the statistics presented is What If It Rains, a site that describes itself as "an unofficial publication produced by supporters of Grand Rapids FC." Such a disclaimer raises doubt about the reliability of the source. Taxman1913 (talk) 14:26, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete Fails WP:NSEASONS and WP:GNG. Govvy (talk) 19:50, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 13:49, 2 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per nom and points made on all previous nominations of GRFC seasons. 21.colinthompson (talk) 17:23, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete lack of notability. Sdmarathe (talk) 01:01, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Per Nom. Fails WP:NSEASONS and WP:GNG. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  00:19, 5 October 2018 (UTC)


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