Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British 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. Ks0stm (T•C•G•E) 04:54, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

British Football League

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The talk page shows that the validity of this article has been questioned several times, going back to 2006. The article starts off by stating "A British Football League is a proposed association football league in the United Kingdom that would involve the merger of clubs from the present Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish football league systems into the larger English football league system". However, there have never been any serious/official proposals to merge all the UK's football leagues together. Occasionally there have been vague rumblings that the biggest two Scottish clubs should relocate into the English League, leaving the rest behind, but that's not the same thing at all, and can be covered by a sentence or two in the appropriate article about football in Scotland. As there have never been any serious/advanced proposals to form a single football league for the whole UK, I don't think an article on it is merited. ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:36, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:36, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete as it seems to violate WP:CRYSTAL and the GNG etc... To be honest, I'd never heard of it until I saw this article. Blue Square Thing (talk) 07:45, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment A news search for the article brings up several different hits for "British Football League", none of which seem to have anything to do with this article. Not sure what the best course of action would be, based on that. -- Ritchie333 (talk)  (cont)   09:04, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Those all seem to be foreign (mainly US) sources erroneously referring to the English League as the "British Football League", which is simply a cultural misnomer...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:44, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - I'd never heard of this thing, looks to have never been seriously considered. GiantSnowman 10:29, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in Scottish task force's list of association football-related deletions. &#9733;&#9734; DUCK IS JAMMMY &#9734;&#9733; 13:56, 21 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete No meaningful sources talking about this league. In any case most of the article seems to be about 'alternative proposals', some of which already have articles anyway (e.g. Atlantic League). Eldumpo (talk) 06:47, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per lack of notability. AutomaticStrikeout 18:49, 27 September 2012 (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.