Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greenwich Mariners


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 05:05, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Greenwich Mariners

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Non notable. University teams for mainstream British sports such as Soccer, rowing and cricket are rarely notable. They usually hold little interest even in their own institution. American Football in the UK is niche interest. Article has no references, largely because there aren't any. Googling Greenwich Mariners returns only websites related to the team and their rivals. Pit-yacker (talk) 19:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. British university sports teams are not generally notable.  This team does not appear to be an exception. Pfainuk talk 19:24, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 22:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:32, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per the reasons expressed in all the other UK uni American football articles. There seems to have been a big drive by one or more editors to add extensive coverage of UK uni American football to WP back in 2008, when standards maybe weren't quite so exacting.  The articles have pretty much not been touched since (this one certainly hasn't, and is now two years out of date), and as has been repeatedly pointed out, these teams simply aren't notable even within their own institutions, never mind in the wider world..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:47, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:GNG with one google news hit. Article is concerned with an amateur unversity sports team, which has no claims to notability. The team plays a sport which is only of minimal notability within the UK and would not be considered even remotely notable within the wider American Football frame either. UK American football teams are nothing like US college teams, they seem essentially little more than social clubs. Although the deletion of other university UK American football teams should not be taken as a suitable reason for deleting this article, there seems to be nothing distinguishing Worcester from any other UK university team. Fenix down (talk) 10:35, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Your analysis of UK university sport is spot on. I think probably everything that a non-UK reader needs to know about UK university sport can be summed up by the fact that, when I was a first-year student, one of my flatmates made it onto the university's American football team, but had to drop out because, with sports teams receiving pretty much no money from the university, the players had to provide their own equipment and he couldn't afford to buy a set of pads. It's hard to imagine Mark Ingram, Jr. having to scrape together the money to buy his own helmet..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 11:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I see no reason to make an exception for this subject at this time. Perhaps in the future should more independent sources arise, this would be a better candidate.  Try another Wiki.--Paul McDonald (talk) 12:26, 15 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.