Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of football clubs in Tuvalu


 * 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   merge to Football in Tuvalu. (non-admin closure) Baseball   Watcher  01:37, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

List of football clubs in Tuvalu

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Contested PROD. An unreferenced list of non-notable clubs. These lists are accepted for other countries because they contain notable clubs. Two of the blue links are places and the other is about an eating club in the United States. Argyle 4 Life talk  17:31, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Argyle 4 Life  talk  17:39, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep per concerns of WP:BIAS. Nothing says that a list must be made up of items that are bluelinks (or even links at all).  The fact that the components of the list might not individually be notable on their own does not indicate that the topic itself is not notable. matt91486 (talk) 18:36, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to the feeble sub-stub Football in Tuvalu. Clearly the topic of football in Tuvalu merits coverage, but I see little point in a separate list which is completely unsourced and composed entirely of redlinks -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge - to Football in Tuvalu; no need for a seperate article. GiantSnowman 12:45, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:51, 29 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep (Look at Category:Lists of association football clubs); this is a seperate article. Add external links. Bogic (talk) 19:36, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Big  Dom  07:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep, no merge, no redirect Nominator has a burden that is not met to show that the claims that this is not notable are not caused by poor research.  Is there a newspaper on Tuvalu?  Does it really not talk about what a reliable source says is the most popular sport in the nation?  This site reliably states that there are nine teams in a Premier league in a country of 12,000 for whom gaining recognition in soccer comes 2nd after joining the United Nations.  WP:N states, "If it is likely that significant coverage in independent sources can be found for a topic, deletion due to lack of notability is inappropriate."  There is no requirement that individual items on a list be notable, although it may be that as a content issue some of the teams on this list can be removed.–again, this needs research, not an AfD nomination.  Nominator might also look at this Russian to English translation.  It is clear based on a Google search that there is interest worldwide in Tuvalu soccer and individual teams there.  As per Category:Lists of association football clubs, merging or redirecting to another article disorganizes/disrupts the encyclopedia without a purpose (Wikipedia is paperless) by creating holes in a logical structure.  Unscintillating (talk) 12:53, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Football in Tuvalu. This is not a useful list. Big  Dom  07:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge - as above. Especially given that Football in Tuvalu has almost no content, I think it would be useful to merge it there. Sir Sputnik (talk) 14:52, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Football in Tuvalu. Just because we have "List of football clubs in..." for other countries, it doesn't we have to have one for every country, especially when the number of teams is so small. I'd say WP:AVOIDSPLIT could apply here. &mdash;BETTIA&mdash; talk 13:59, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Football in Tuvalu, with no prejudice against recreating the list when the main article becomes too long. I can understand Unscintillating's point about "creating holes in a logical structure", but I think that the issue is moderated by the fact that List of football clubs in Tuvalu will continue to exist as a redirect (thus, editors who search for the list will be taken to the appropriate page). More importantly, for me, merging this short list devoid of almost any supplemental content into the sub-stub that is Football in Tuvalu would consolidate and better organize Wikipedia's limited content about the topic of association football in Tuvalu. -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:48, 5 May 2011 (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.