Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Real Madrid 1–2 FC Sheriff Tiraspol (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 15:08, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

Real Madrid 1–2 FC Sheriff Tiraspol
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Although the outcome of this match was surprising and widely reported at the time, I find no evidence of lasting impact or coverage. In my search for significant coverage well after the match (no sources are currently present in the article), I found a blog post and some brief mentions , but I'm not sure that this is enough. Sourcing is otherwise what one would expect for any Champions League match, in which quite a few upsets occur every season. Therefore, I don't believe this match satisfies WP:EVENT or WP:SIGCOV. ComplexRational (talk) 15:04, 21 July 2022 (UTC) Any particular reason this is being considered for deletion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryllyld (talk • contribs) 15:08, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Football, Moldova,  and Spain. ComplexRational (talk) 15:04, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * - see above -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:34, 22 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete An underdog win is a shock, but it is not unheard of. Do we have an article for when MK Dons beat Manchester United in 2014 in the EFL Cup or any other teams that lose to underdogs. The answer is no, because we’d have endless articles. It is poorly sourced and exaggerated as well. Fats40boy11 (talk) 16:44, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * There was a previous AFD, after which we moved it to draftspace. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:52, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I was slightly mistaken, for which I apologise, and have re-worded. However, I still think that the article should be deleted. Fats40boy11 (talk) 13:26, 22 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. Yes, it was a very unexpected result, but despite it having "sent seismic shockwaves across the footballing world" (whatever...), there is no lasting coverage of this event. BilletsMauves (talk) 16:48, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt as there is not sustained coverage of this, so fails WP:NOTNEWS. In the last AFD, I supported a move to draftspace to see if prolonged coverage did appear. That was 9 months ago, and there's no evidence of sustained coverage of this event, so should be deleted. And this will likely repeatedly get re-created, so salting would be sensible too. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:52, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. GiantSnowman 08:42, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete and SALT - not enough for its own article. GiantSnowman 08:53, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Comments There are places to house some of this like the Real Madrid season page, the Sheriff Tiraspol season page. I have nothing against this article if done right, there are match sources on the web. For England you have BBC The Guardian +more, In America on CNN, Covered in India with The Times of India. Not to mention covered by other major news agencies around the world. :/ The WP:SIGCOV is there. I don't think SALT is necessary either. It had impact on the following match for Marca to title their article Real Madrid exact revenge on Sheriff to make the last 16. Again this is down to how wikipedia wants to handle the information out there. And there are loads of sources regarding the match. There are follow up sources as well around, some analytical. It's all there if you want to use them. Govvy (talk) 09:53, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I would consider this coverage routine and not indicative of lasting coverage. Every match (whether or not the outcome is "expected") will be reported in many sources immediately after it takes place, and the relevance for the second leg is also pretty routine. Along the lines of, I could also claim the existence of such coverages for other "shocking results" – Liverpool F.C. 0–2 Atalanta B.C. was perhaps one of the greatest international moments in my team's history, and surely was well-documented in the English and Italian media right after it happened, but it doesn't have enough lasting coverage to justify writing an article about it. On the other hand, FC Barcelona 2–8 FC Bayern Munich had a much more profound impact (Barcelona rebuilding, records broken) and still receives non-trivial coverage over a year later; that's why there's an article on that match, for example. ComplexRational (talk) 13:57, 22 July 2022 (UTC)


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