Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/D.C. United–LA Galaxy rivalry


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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 18:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

D.C. United–LA Galaxy rivalry

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Concern was that the article fails WP:GNG and WP:NRIVALRY. PROD contested by the articles creator. Claiming that the rivalry has received heavy coverage. But I don't see any significant coverage. As a matter of fact, this is not even a rivalry. – Michael (talk) 04:21, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete Clearly fails WP:GNG, one of many cases of an article written about a statistical rivalry, rather than a tangible rivalry. The only reference which actually describes DC vs LA as a pair of combatants is routive coverage in the lead-up to a game, and it makes no mention of a rivalry – it merely describes the successes of the two clubs. The other references support different facts which have been put in the article, but the author is just using those facts to synthesize or exaggerate a rivalry which doesn't appear to exist. Aspirex (talk) 10:54, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - no evidence of notability. GiantSnowman 17:22, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - nothing more than a collection of results with no indication that this is anything more than a non-notable rivalry Spiderone  17:27, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Plenty of articles online and in media that support the existence of the rivalry. 128.172.33.45 (talk) 16:13, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Could you give an example please? Spiderone  17:38, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * It's also important to note that existence is not the same as notability. Fenix down (talk) 18:01, 10 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - Aspirex sums this up perfectly, this is a statistical rivalry, not anything tangible as a rivalry in the same sense as something Old Firm. NRIVALRY requires GNG to be met and I am not seeing significant coverage of the notion of a rivalry outside brief mentions in routine match reporting. Fenix down (talk) 15:21, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


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