Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Essex Blades (American football)


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The result was   delete. JForget 01:42, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Essex Blades (American football)

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Non-notable. As per Articles for deletion/Durham Saints, Articles for deletion/Edinburgh Predators, Articles for deletion/Swansea Titans and Articles for deletion/NTU Renegades. British university sports teams for mainstream British sports such as soccer have next to no following. American Football has an even smaller following. 18-months on from the last deletion nomination, which appears to have failed on a procedural basis due to a batch nomination, this article still does not have a single reference. That's hardly surprising as there aren't any. A google of Essex Blades returns nothing but self-published and sites in some way affiliated to the team. If anyone is in any doubt to the notability of British University sports teams, take a look on their own website's gallery. If I'm generous the number of spectators could be counted on your fingers. Pit-yacker (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - the nom says it all, really. British university sports teams are not generally notable, particularly in minority sports such as American Football.  In the case of this team, I see no evidence that it comes close to passing WP:GNG. Pfainuk talk 14:49, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - This is an intersection of two pretty much non-notable things (university sport in the UK and American Football in the UK), so is very very non-notable. I work at a university and can confirm that our sports teams are very lucky if they draw a "crowd" of as many as 50 spectators...... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 20:34, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:34, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I live in essex and I have never heard of them. I can say I have never sen any coverage of them.Slatersteven (talk) 21:02, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - American football at university level has pushing zero public profile in the UK. In the States, university sport is highly notable; in the UK, with some limited obvious exceptions, it is no big deal. It is also not the highest amateur level; that is the adult British American Football League and, separately, doesn't meet WP:ORG. Even in University of Essex the only mention is an an example of an 'Unusual sport'! TerriersFan (talk) 21:15, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete too bad because it appears to be a well-written article. It's just not suitable for our purposes here and does not meet our standards of notability and reliable sources.  Try another Wiki.--Paul McDonald (talk) 13:22, 2 May 2010 (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.