Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American Professional Football League


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete, as no reliable sources have been presented to establish notability; AfD is a discussion not a vote, and asserting that they exist is not sufficient. Verifiability is non-negotiable and is the responsibility of those adding content or supporting its inclusion.

If reliable sources can be found as claimed then there is no prejudice against the articles being recreated with them. --Sam Blanning(talk) 12:10, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

American Professional Football League

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Non-notable indoor football league. I'm also going to be nominating the articles for the teams in the league. Bobblehead 10:53, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related pages because they are the teams of the league and are equally non-notable:

--Bobblehead 10:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Iowa Blackhawks
 * Kansas Koyotes
 * Missouri Minutemen
 * Wichita Aviators
 * St. Joseph Explorers
 * Nebraska B.E.A.R.S
 * Nebraska Wildcats
 * St. Joseph Storm
 * Delete all per nom. Only 171 unique and 583 total Google hits for "American Professional Football League", and that includes tons of Wiki mirrors. No notability (as demonstrated via third-party coverage) is presented in the article, and I found no reliable sources mentioning the league on Google. -- Kicking222 18:58, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't delete This league does have notability in the indoor football community, it just doesn't have a strong Internet presense. The league has an established fanbase in the towns that the teams operate in. -- TNT44 16:20, 17 December 2006 (EST)
 * We need reliable sources to document that notability though. Punkmorten 22:31, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, if we follow the notability guidelines to the letter, not only are the teams and league notable but so is everyone who has ever played in this league. In any case, Wikipedia can at least have articles on the leagues and teams. Recury 23:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep based on WP:N. InterCity sports leagues are notable. The APFL's website indicates they are considering merging with the Intense Football League, which is more "notable" using the unofficial "Google test." If that happens in a year or two, then we can merge the articles. Today, the APFL has not merged, and it has not totally fallen apart yet. A Google search on the individual teams turns up several sources to indicate that the games and teams are achieving notability. The Google results indicate not just internet recognition, but digital copies of newspapers. JeremyBicha 03:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. They're an active professional football league; why delete it? RMc 14:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per Recury and JeremyBicha Tom Danson 05:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep per JeremyBicha League has franchises in semi-major cities and has recieved coverage in many of those newspapers Elsprucemoose 06:47, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.