Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goodwood Cricket Club


 * 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 keep, after extended time for discussion. BD2412 T 23:36, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

Goodwood Cricket Club

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Not notable in the slightest, don't know how this survived that long.  dibbydib  boop or snoop 23:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Cricket-related deletion discussions.  dibbydib  boop or snoop 23:17, 21 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment IF it really is one of the oldest cricket clubs in existence then I'd keep it, but with a clean-up and need for inline referencing. However much of the text refers to Duke of Richmond XIs, so it is not clear when a separate GCC was formed. A club playing just Sunday cricket would not normally be notable. Spike &#39;em (talk) 08:32, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * According to one of the sources in the article (Glorious Goodwood by James Peill) this club was resurrected in 1813, so it is certainly over 200 years old. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:35, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed that if it is one of the oldest cricket clubs, then there should be more sources to demonstrate notability. Joseph2302 (talk) 09:56, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:14, 24 May 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:52, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: Preliminary searches indicate that this may have enough coverage to take it past GNG - there's some independent coverage in the Chichester Observer and some other things.  Java Hurricane  06:47, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Draftify. If the club is over 300 years old, the article must have notability but the poor standard of writing, the inadequate and contradictory research, and the lack of references have left it in an appalling state. The article begins its history by declaring that the club in 1622 was the "cradle of cricket", but there are other articles on the site to confirm that cricket began much earlier and, in any event, it says the 1622 incident was in Boxgrove, not Goodwood. That piece of misinformation is a precursor of the mess that follows. I would remove everything done by User:Richard Geffen and User:Richard G, surely the same person, and return the article in draft form to its October 2016 version when it was a developing stub in need of both citations and a thorough copyedit: e.g., the identity of "the 4th Duke". Presumably this chap? No Great Shaker (talk) 20:46, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Draftification would be the worst possible result, because it would mean that nobody would be able to find the article and improve it. As this is at AfD we need to make a decision here and now, based on notability, not just kick the article six months down the road to when it would be deleted under WP:G13. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:08, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Historically notable cricket club, club hosted first-class cricket in 1814, playing under the name of its patron Lord F Beauclerk. StickyWicket (talk) 09:49, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


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