Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saint Croix official football team


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The result was   delete. Sorry, but the consensus is that they do not meet our requirements, and Wikipedia is not here to be a substitute web-host. JohnCD (talk) 22:19, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Saint Croix official football team

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I am also nominating Tortola official football team, Saint Thomas official football team and Virgin Gorda official football team.

None of these teams is notable. All only play against each other in the Virgin Islands Championship, with some having played in the past in the Leeward Islands tournament. There is very little information available on either tournament. The Virgin Islands Championship has been tagged as unsourced since October 2006. All teams provide a link to a website called roonba. The original links are all dead and google searches of the new site reveal 0 hits. I tried 'Tortola site:roonba.com' and its variants. Stu.W UK (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related deletions. Stu.W UK (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - these teams have done nothing of note. GiantSnowman 14:20, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Caribbean-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:28, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable football teams. Argyle 4 Life  talk  08:08, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

I am the maintainer of the roonba.com website, which was previously hosted free at roonba.50webs.com. In its previous incarnation, I had a separate page for all sub-national and non-FIFA teams, with a list of all their results. I decided to remove these pages a few years ago, as someone took it upon themselves to simply copy and paste the details into Wikipedia, and make claims of official status/national team status for teams such as those mentioned above, as well as countless others.

Of the 4 teams mentioned above, St Croix and St Thomas played regularly in the now defunct Leeward Islands tournament, and also participated in the Virgin Islands Championship, which involved the British Virgin Islands of Virgin Gorda and Tortola. Tortola has also participated in the Leeward Islands Championship and has played a single friendly match against Dominica. The Virgin Islands Championship's purpose in some years seems to have been as a qualifier for the Leeward Islands tournament. One of the 4 Virgin Islands made it to the final 4-team competition. However, as the Leeward Islands tournament is no longer competed for, I'm not even sure if these separate island representative teams exist. The Virgin Islands Championship is a bona fide tournament, and was played annually from 1996-2002 as can be seen here: http://www.rsssf.com/tablesv/virgin-4isles.html 92.18.158.143 (talk) 01:37, 9 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The problem with both tournaments, and the teams competing in them, is the paucity of evidence that suggests they are verifiable and notable. Stu.W UK (talk) 16:40, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. There is no indication that any of these teams are notable. Sir Sputnik (talk) 18:08, 9 March 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.