Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Casamance national football team


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The result was   delete. StarM 23:22, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Casamance national football team

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Non-notable football team which purports to represent a sub-national region (and therefore is in fact not a "national team" at all) and has never actually played a match. ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:15, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom - completely non-notable. GiantSnowman 16:17, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Having said the team has never played a football game! Govvy (talk) 17:47, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Wow, someone created an article about a team that didn't yet play a game? When the team becomes notable, the article can be recreated, but the article itself denies that the team meets notability guidelines, so it should be deleted.  Theseeker4 (talk) 18:42, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per Theseeker4. If not for the FedFutbol link, this could have easily been speedied under a hoax. --Numyht (talk) 21:12, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Very not notable. пﮟოьεԻ   5  7  23:00, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete' Casamance is not a nation, just a province, so at best this would be a minor feeder to the Senagalan national team, if the Casamance team existed.  Nate  • ( chatter ) 04:45, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep . The use of the term nation or national has two meanings. One is a country, and the other is a people; which is why in Canada, the provincial parliament in Quebec is called the National Assembly - even though it is only for a region. This debate should be about whether the page should exist or not - not what it should be called. Nfitz (talk) 05:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - the article has been nominated for deletion because the team is utterly non-notable, not because of the confusion over the name. You don't actually offer any policy-based rationale as to why the article should be kept -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 07:58, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment - the nominating statement focuses on the national issue, not the notability issue. If it was simply because the team was utterly non-notable then you should focus the nominating statement on that, rather than getting sidetracked with a narrow definition of the word "nation". Nfitz (talk) 18:46, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You may notice that the very first word of the nom is "non-notable". Nonetheless, I've struck out the offending part of the nom as it was only ever intended as an aside anyway.... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 20:41, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. Nfitz (talk) 19:59, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - about as non-notable as you can get. - fchd (talk) 07:32, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable "national" team --Angelo (talk) 15:24, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


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