Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Diego Thunder


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 09:23, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

San Diego Thunder

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

I'm not particularly familiar with US sports teams but from what I can see this is a minor club which doesn't appear to meet WP:CLUB; my attention was drawn to the article because there is a clear WP:COI from its creator, who states he is the club owner. I42 (talk) 20:08, 10 June 2009 (UTC) Also listing --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 23:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Semi-professional is very minor level, indeed. But with any organization, what matters is whether there are third party sources with meaningful coverage to cite... I didn't expect to find any, but lo and behold, in the San Diego Union-Tribune. As far as I can tell that's the only article with coverage of this team. Unless more can be found, I'm going to have to say Delete. There have been other, apparently unrelated, teams by this name... one in the 1980s for example:   --Chiliad22 (talk) 23:01, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of notability. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 23:04, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of American football-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 23:41, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 23:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: obvious conflict of interest seen at page creator. Alexius08 (talk) 00:16, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * That's not really a reason to delete though... deletion isn't punishment. Deletion should occur when an article is on an unencyclopedic topic... who is editing it doesn't determine whether the topic is encyclopedic or not. --Chiliad22 (talk) 03:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I concur. If, in the early days of Wikipedia, we would have found an article on Microsoft with User:Bill Gates as the main editor, the article would have been tagged for cleanup, that's for sure, but deletion, no. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 01:11, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable per WP:CLUB, team is only semi-pro.-- Giants27 ( t | c ) 17:34, 14 June 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.