Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merseyside Nighthawks


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The result was   delete. Redirect to British American Football League after deletion The Bushranger One ping only 08:19, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Merseyside Nighthawks

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 * 1) Article is unreferenced and has had no material edits in almost 2 years.
 * 2) Debatably notable UK American Football team. There is nothing other than a small smattering of available references about the team. The most notable of these are 3 match reports on the Daily Mirror's American Football blog across a year, with a further 4 mentions in a list of match results in the previous year.  I am inclined to suggest that if the team was in anyway notable, the very least we could expect would be the score at their game for every match? Besides the Mirror's blog coverage, there is coverage with inconsistent regularity in a handful of local papers such as the Southport Visiter (sic) (circ 12,000) - 2 articles inc an appeal for new players, Wirral Globe (free-sheet), Wirral News (free-sheet), Liverpool Echo and Liverpool Daily Post (the latter 2 are sister titles of each other).  Besides that I found a single book on Google Books which uses Wikipedia as its source.
 * 3) Having just deleted out the history section that was cut and paste from . We are left with a lead that says little that can't be found in the table on List of American football teams in the United Kingdom and a series of apparently indiscriminate and incomplete lists. The majority of these lists probably dont belong in an encyclopaedia article. Pit-yacker (talk) 13:33, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions. Pit-yacker (talk) 13:39, 28 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete no sources outside team website it seems.--Paul McDonald (talk) 14:39, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Redirect to its parent league, British American Football League. I share the nominator's concern that there doesn't seem to be consistent independent coverage to satisfy WP:GNG. However, sources are not required to be online, so perhaps someone can identify offline sources that establish notability.—Bagumba (talk) 15:25, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 00:38, 5 October 2011 (UTC)




 * Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 07:20, 9 October 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.