Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AFC Sidley


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The result was   delete. JForget 00:01, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

AFC Sidley

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Contested PROD, no reason given. Non-notable amateur football team playing in the seventh tier of the East Sussex Football League, at about step 18 in the English football league system. Never played in the national cup (FA Cup), which deems clubs notable. Also fails WP:N, and WP:V due to no independent sources provided. --Jimbo[online] 11:02, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. non notable club, achieved nothing, purely speculative, no notable coverage.-- Club Oranje T 11:11, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - essentially a pub team playing in a park. Unlikely to gain any media coverage whatsoever unless they get promoted about 9 times or something happens on the level of a UFO landing during one of their matches -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:12, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. GiantSnowman 11:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable. No acheivements at either a sporting or a media level. GiantSnowman 11:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete probably written by someone playing for this non-notable club Spiderone (talk) 16:42, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Created by User:Powellm2 and one of the club founders is a Marc Powell. QED -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 21:40, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and Spiderone. RP459 (talk) 18:59, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Completely and utterly non-notable (but, considering that they're newly-created - and I can only think of AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons that are notable - that's not a surprise). Also, it was created by Powellm2 - the chairman and one of the founders is called Marc Powell - there's possible Wp:COI issues as well. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) | (talk to me) | (What I've done)  14:15, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Sorry: I meant "would have been notable at the time", not now - what with Milton Keynes in League 1 and AFC Wimbledon in the Blue Square Premier. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess) | (talk to me) | (What I've done)  14:18, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Contested, should not be deleted as is a start up foobtall team, affileated with the sussex county F.A. There are many teams listed on wikipedia to have never played in the F.A cup so therefore should be kept. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Webmaster 3001 (talk • contribs) 15:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC) User's first ever edit

In agreement with webmaster with this one, a team has to start some where and although there are minor COI issues I believe pages such as these can provide usefull info to the other teams in their league. Such as Team location and kit colors to avoid clashing on matchday. Just something to think about people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NJG20o7 (talk • contribs) 18:52, 31 July 2009 (UTC) — NJG20o7 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Again, user's first ever edit
 * Wikipedia is not a free webhost for minor clubs to give out info to other teams in their league, if a club wishes to do that they can easily create their own website. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia which requires that every article's subject have received significant coverage in independent, reliable, third-party sources (eg newspapers, magazines, websites which employ journalistic/editorial staff).  Has this club received any such coverage? -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:17, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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