Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cricket Team of the University of Göttingen


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The result of the debate was Merge with University of Göttingen. Deathphoenix ʕ 13:57, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

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Cricket Team of the University of Göttingen
A non notable university cricket team, about 20 years old, so I don't think it has merit on heritage grounds. It also is not notable on cricketing grounds, especially as Germany does not play cricket (well, it hasn't ever qualified for the ICC Champions Trophy and the Cricket World Cup, and let me tell you that the United States qualified for the last ICC Champions Trophy in 2004, with a team half of whom were over 40 years old, they were Sunday social cricketers, basically all of them were actually Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lankan/British expatriates having a bit of fun, and were defeated by the Australian cricket team in about 20% of the allotted time for the game). So that tells you where cricket in Germany is below.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 01:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Possible keep. We might want to consult the author of the page, to give him/her a chance to work this out. A request for a clean-up maybe? Well, I'm not sure of the keep though, it might as well be a possible delete. Jadriaen 01:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Based on the article and the info presented above, there's really no notability whatsoever here. So they're one of a few cricket teams in Germany- they're still an unimportant (in the grand scheme of things) college club. -- Kicking222 02:04, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * weak Delete. Nothing to convince that they are any more notable than any other university sports team, but cricket is rare in Germany, hence possible notability-by-novelty a la Jamaican bobsleighers etc (+ website states appearances on TV etc). A delete unless someone can make a convincing case for notability. Badgerpatrol 02:28, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge with University of Göttingen or Delete not notable enough for it's own page.--Nick Y. 02:32, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep because it's a rather interesting story and I learnt something. It is one of only 50 cricket clubs in Germany. Merge would also be OK. Tyrenius 04:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there any chance this could be merged into some more general article on cricket in Germany? Assuming some cricket fan can find the topic interesting enough to write about, obviously. Just don't merge the whole thing with University of Göttingen. That would be worse than keeping it as a separate article. u p p l a n d 05:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. The above suggestion is a good one. The article has a redlink to German Cricket Association and that could be expanded. The article has external links to two other teams that they play. Does the Wikiproject Cricket know about this article? --Bduke 07:03, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep as per u p p l a n d's ideas.-- E va   d  b  09:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge into University of Göttingen, as sports do play a crucial part in university, but on its own, definately NN DannyM 18:58, 10 May 2006 (UTC).
 * Merge into a subsection of University of Gottingen. Not enough history  (perspectivally) to grow into an expansive article at this time. If they were a professional team, it could stand alone as is.   T  e  k e  19:39, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a cricket club in Germany - that's notable in itself. Merge would also be acceptable. Nloth 23:27, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to university per Nick. -- E ivindt@c 23:31, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Merging with the University of Göttingen will give undue weight to this cricket club. This will make this cricket team look much more important than it does in its own article. Göttingen is undoubtedly one of the most important universities in history, and a lot of things could be written about it in its main article. But this cricket club isn't one of them. If it is merged, I am pretty sure someone will soon remove it from the article (I might do it myself), because it would be outright silly to keep it in there. u p p l a n d 06:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Why not then move the article to a subspace of the University's article, that would keep it out of the mainspace. T  e  k e  02:37, 13 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Please review your votes. With a heroic effort on my part (as I know absolutely nothing about cricket), I attempted a rewrite to make the article be about cricket in Germany as a whole, although still, obviously, with a bit too much emphasis given to Göttingen. With a history going back to 1850, there must be something interesting to say about cricket in Germany. I used the history page on the website of the German Cricket Federation to write an introduction, but that page is completely silent on what happened during the Nazi period. I suspect that there is an interesting story in there somewhere. Let's keep this now and move it to Cricket in Germany. u p p l a n d 06:18, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Keep and rename. --Bduke 06:57, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Just found German cricket team but I do not think it where this material should be moved to. --Bduke 09:25, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to Cricket in Germany per Uppland. Stephen Turner (Talk) 17:35, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per Uppland Runcorn 19:39, 15 May 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.