Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meteors Basketball 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   delete. While technically falling under G7 for speedy deletion, both the creator and nominator agree that the article isn't ready to be on the mainspace, yet. User:Mikel.forcada, let me know if you wish to keep working on it, and I can always provide you with a deleted copy to work on. MuZemike 02:24, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Meteors Basketball Club

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Not seeing how this might meet notability guidelines. Appears to be a series of local amateur teams. The only hits I'm seeing in Google News are unrelated (a high school in Chicago or a child porn case in Australia). Claims of importance and notability are not backed up with 3rd party sources. RadioFan (talk) 12:04, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Basketball-related deletion discussions.  —RadioFan (talk) 12:05, 1 October 2009 (UTC)


 * OK, I give up. Delete it. I don't have time to gather all what seems to be needed to make this article adequate for Wikipedia. However, I find it unfair in comparison to similar articles such as those for the Tolka Rovers, which have been warned in 2008 and are still standing there, warning and all, with basically no third-party references. The Meteors are one of the most important ladies-only basketball club in Ireland and i thought it deserved an article. Maybe I was wrong. But I think that the criteria should be applied homogeneously.  --Mikel L. Forcada (talk) 21:49, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Dont take it personally. Unfortunately "important" by Wikipedia standards means 3rd party references.  All articles are subject to the same rules but since Wikipedia is maintained by volunteers not all articles get attention right away.  This one got attention when it was created.  Now that you've brought Tolka Rovers to someone's attention, it's been marked for deletion as well. --RadioFan (talk) 02:31, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * No regrets, RadioFan! I'll try to learn from this. The only reliable 3rd party references I added relate to the Irish Superleague team of the Club (one from Basketball Ireland and the other from an independent European basketball page (www.eurobasket.com). There is a link in the Basketball Ireland article to some teams like the Meteors. If that page is going to be kept, perhaps it could add links to the Club's webpages, instead of links to deleted wikipedia articles, so that it is useful to visitors. What do you think? --Mikel L. Forcada (talk) 05:40, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Other wikipedia articles may not be used as references and web pages created by the clubs themselves are not reliable sources either.--RadioFan (talk) 01:41, 7 October 2009 (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.