Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shanghai national football team


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The result was   delete. Interesting topic if true. But needs reliable sources.  SilkTork  *YES! 13:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Shanghai national football team

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This article seems to stem from this discussion on a forum. This article fails WP:N. Further, the team is not a national one. As Shanghai actually ceased to be a Japanese puppet state in 1940 one of the matches mentioned is definitely incorrect. I find it highly unlikely that the 1937 one occurred once Shanghai became 'independent'. Regardless, Hong Kong didn't play an official international until 1954. This means this article boils down to a possible but unlikely single match between two unrecognised teams. Stu.W UK (talk) 21:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Stu.W UK (talk) 22:03, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, non-notable. GiantSnowman 22:41, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article creator got carried away with creating articles for unverified and non-notable football teams. Fences and windows (talk) 03:19, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable. John Sloan @ 11:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 *  Merge/redirect to History of Shanghai. Same arguments as in manchuko above. Fascianting part of history that does not need independent article. Fix any inaccuracies. Cheers,   Dloh  cierekim  00:26, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Switch to delete per STU.  Dloh  cierekim  00:35, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree in the Manchuria case, but in this instance removing ll the inaccuracies would most likely mean that there was no article. The Manchuria team has evidence of having played when independent, Shanghai doesn't.Stu.W UK (talk) 00:32, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete not notable in its own. --Angelo (talk) 08:59, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
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